Starlink Review Part 1: Setup and Performance On A Property With Tall Trees

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Күн бұрын

In this video I break down how Starlink performs on my property where its competing against tall trees. I give you a breakdown of my property, show you exactly where I mounted the dish, display the obstructions and interruptions, and provide a detailed view of the upload and download speeds I receive.
Chapter Breakdown:
0:00 Intro
0:16 A Breakdown of My Property
1:22 Scanning the Sky with the App
2:11 My Starlink Speeds
3:41 Interruptions
4:24 Overall Impressions and Future Plans
If you have a property with a lot of trees, this should help you find out if Starlink is the right move for your internet.
Overall, I can't say enough good things about Starlink.

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@alflorida4653 5 күн бұрын

Thanks for sharing your experience. We are in our 30 day trial trying to decide if we want to keep StarLink. We are in an RV and travel alot. In about 2 weeks we are going to be camping in some tall pine trees with some small open spaces. Your experience gives us hope that we will get usable speed. Even 2-3M down and 500K-1M will work for what we need. Thanks for the reporting.

@TomBedlammusic Жыл бұрын

I ripped the leg off mine, drilled some rivets into it, mounted to it to the roof of my campervan and often park in forests. I still get anything from 30-100 mbps download. Ive never noticed any issues, that's more than enough for 99% of regular user stuff. I freaking love it.

@doughoover1078 Жыл бұрын

Cool video! Loved the outtakes…”Quiet please…thank you!”

@stacieocker 2 ай бұрын

Thank you for sharing your experience, it’s very helpful.

@eanstan7240 Жыл бұрын

Great video! Great quality and informative! I live in an urban area and still enjoyed it! Shame it only has 44 views!

@keiththompson2289 9 ай бұрын

Thanks for giving me hope that it may work for me!

@elenakyiashko9313 Жыл бұрын

Great info!

@astorytoremember Жыл бұрын

Awesome review! Interested in the non-ideal-winter-weather update.

@philipcraig956 11 ай бұрын

That is the best and most thorough review of obstructions and impacts I’ve seen. Thank you. I have a similar situation down here in Oz. 4.2% obstructions and the installer is telling me it isn’t going to work at all. As it is my only solution, I don’t have much choice.

@richardhoward5221 13 күн бұрын

Did it end up working?

@philipcraig956 12 күн бұрын

@@richardhoward5221Yes, perfectly. Well actually not quite. For the first week, it worked for General Internet and streaming tv, but Zoom or Teams meetings were impossible. However, after a week, it seemed to settle down and now I rarely notice an issue. I think it took that first week to make any small adjustments it needed and now it is great. I’m very happy I installed it.

@chasekingsbury8245 8 ай бұрын

Any updates on this? Would love to hear the longer term review!

@ashilling9283 8 ай бұрын

Thanks for this video! Glad to find your channel. Looks interesting! I am in a similar situation with trees. I am in the Mark Twain National Forest on Table Rock Lake in the Ozarks. Mucho árboles. I installed Starlink on my roof too. I installed it with the Starlink roof mount that has the ballasts. Kinda wondering if an extension pole with the roof mount might work? I have not seen an extension pole, but I think the combined weight of the ballasts is about 55 lbs. I mean (nose crinkled) it could be okay? The reason I am commenting is because I am wondering how you fared with the winter and the snow?

@xnadave 6 ай бұрын

Thank you for saying "gig" instead of "gigs." Subscribed.

@joseroque3436 3 ай бұрын

Thanks a lot! very helpful, I had the same concern, I'm about to install it in a few days and I'm surrounded by big trees

@outthereinit 3 ай бұрын

Glad it helped

@richardhoward5221 13 күн бұрын

So did it end up working?

@RedPoppyArtHouse Жыл бұрын

thx man

@garyag45 9 ай бұрын

We love Starlink, have both home and rv 👍😎🦅🇺🇸

@granteditslifeoutdoors.9194 Жыл бұрын

Thanks for this. I’m just about out of the trial period - same obstruction issues, lots of big pine trees. Going to give Starlink some further latitude.

@tfogelson3139 Жыл бұрын

Just top a pine and put the antenna on top of the tree. I did, no more obstructions.

@Gtapolice123 5 ай бұрын

Any updates, how did it go?

@Test-bi5rg Жыл бұрын

Have you encountered service disruptions during specific time of a day (like from afternoon to midnight)? I found my dish sent a lot of obstruction warning in the afternoon.

@SEANRMZ 9 ай бұрын

Happy it’s been working out. Not sure if it was mentioned, but a telescopic flag pole cold be a great solution from the side of the cabin. 😊

@ORJeeper 11 ай бұрын

We have very similar results on our forest property in Oregon. I mounted the dish on the roof and it worked great for about 14 months in every kind of weather including blizzards. We went from 1 Mbs DSL to about 120 Mbs with Starlink. Then we started getting outages for hours, then days at a time. After several weeks of trying to communicate with Starlink tech support they had me move the dish to a different area with same results. Then they sent me a new cable with same results. They told me they did a diagnostic and the dish was only working at about half speed and frequently zero communication so now they are sending me an entirely new system , dish, router and cable. We should receive it today, hoping for the best.

@josegvaldizonmayo105 11 ай бұрын

Do you have any updates yet regarding the performance after you got the new unit?

@1776AMERICANREBEL 10 ай бұрын

How is it working now?

@Recuper8 9 ай бұрын

Lol, why write such a comment and not provide an update. Weirdo

@terrencecdean8907 8 ай бұрын

Any update

@loganlund6801 2 ай бұрын

What happened?

@zackhawn5944 6 ай бұрын

Just thought I'd put out there that the obstructions he has from just putting his starlink on his roof would be detrimental if you want to do a task that required low latency like online gaming.

@broncofun5636 Жыл бұрын

I have a similar situation and zoom locks up every 10 minutes. Works flawlessly otherwise.

@gmarie701 4 ай бұрын

Great explanation. I live in your general area with similar topography and lots of huge trees. Do yourself a huge favor and get a much taller ladder to get up on your roof so you are not placing any weight on the very top like to did at 5:04 . That risk can become a life changing disaster in the blink of an eye. It could easily pitch you off the top of the ladder and over the balcony rail. Imagine that fall...

@jaygro1371 Жыл бұрын

Lol 4% is basically a clear view

@dmo848 8 ай бұрын

Down across your driveway on a pole would be better for where it is facing. You will get faster speeds my friend.

@Oktokolo Жыл бұрын

Non-gamer confirmed. That short interruptions, video streams easily buffer through or occasional robotic voice artifacts in video conferences - some of that would probably manifest as disconnects or severe lag in online games.

@melissamchone Ай бұрын

Do you have an update after using it through the winter? I am considering starlink but we live in Lake Tahoe with LOTS of snow and trees.

@outthereinit Ай бұрын

Sure do. Starlink Review Part 2: Bad Weather + Updates kzfaq.info/get/bejne/n9p9iNmAv8e3kWg.html

@melissamchone Ай бұрын

@@outthereinit thank you so much!! Is there any chance I could maybe set up a quick call the you to ask mountain living specific questions about starlink experience? I have lived in Tahoe for 25+ years and I’m fed up with Spectrum services. I like the idea of this service but could really benefit from some specific scenario recommendations. I could send you video footage of our Tahoe property in advance. I so appreciate your response to my question and your love of Mtn. Living