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@tristo8881

8 ай бұрын

satellite vs mobile network, thats not an alternative mate, want me to give you a location pin point to check what internet is available there ( -11.206961909920699, 142.37674218381872 ) see what internet you can use at this locaiton,,,

You’re mirroring our exact path. Looking forward to more. Thank you

@jcristina

Жыл бұрын

More to come!🍵👍🏻

We have had Starlink for a few years SF bay area. I placed an order as soon as it's been available. I signed up for the take it anywhere as soon as that was available. It's been awesome here on my boat or in my RV out in the desert of Nevada and all places in between.

@GalaGirly

Жыл бұрын

Wondering, which starlink tower location you are connected to?

Really very helpful and well put together..I appreciate it . Thank you

@jcristina

Жыл бұрын

I appreciate you being here.

We gave in and did the best effort. The day our dish shipped, they converted us to Residential. If you're holding off because of that, do it. We also have a dish that is best effort and it was just so great. It has been so much better than all the other alternatives we tried.

@jcristina

Жыл бұрын

Congrats. They will upgrade you without you even knowing it.

@NoMoreInfo4You

Жыл бұрын

What is best effort and where do you get it???

@Spawn_Media

Жыл бұрын

@@NoMoreInfo4You best effort is just deprioritized service if residential isn't available in your area you can get best effort and be switched over to residential when it becomes available

@NoMoreInfo4You

Жыл бұрын

@@Spawn_Media Thank you but still not sure how to order. I had ordered a year and a half ago and when I found out I had to pay right away I cancelled because I was 18 months early. Now I don't know how to get back in line without ordering again. How do I do best effort???

@petecoventry6858

Жыл бұрын

@@Spawn_Media although in my part of the UK I am on Roam but I can't go to res even thought it's available

I live in semi-rural southern Nevada, halfway between Las Vegas and Death Valley, CA. Once I found out that T-Mobile 5G home internet was available here, I decided to give it a try, given a two-week free trial period. I am so glad I did. I consistently get 150 - 200 download and 50 - 75 upload compared to 50 - 125 download and 10 - 20 upload with Starlink. T-Mobile never slows down at night, whereas Starlink slowed down every night. No buffering at all streaming video with T-Mobile vs. frequent buffering with Starlink. And pricing? My cell phone with Metro by T-Mobile and T-Mobile home internet bundled with autopay runs me a meager $75/month for unlimited everything.

Hello all, I am from Germany, 25 miles away from the Telekom headquarter and the fact that they aren’t able to provide fast internet here in our small village was the reason to buy Starlink. This works great and obviously during the last 6 months that I use it some more satellites were brought into the orbit and the reliability and speed even got better and better. Before the dish was delivered I too tested the newest versions of t-mobile gigacube and the Vodafone equivalent. Both couldn’t convince me, because without any antenna outside, the limitation is always that the signal has to come through the concrete walls. I love my dish and today, with your tutorial of how to repair a broken Starlink cable, I was able to provide the Starlink experience to our neighbors. I cut the cable, used an already existing hole in the wall and brought the cable into the house. Long story short: thanks Joseph for your videos, wish you and your beloved a nice 🐣 Eastern 😘👍

@jcristina

Жыл бұрын

Many blessings to you and yours. Thanks for being here.

@Whothatguy5544

Жыл бұрын

@@jcristina how long does it take get STARLINK normally for you or anyone

@mathew6596

Жыл бұрын

​@@Whothatguy5544 depends where you live, but I just set a friend up with starlink and it took no longer than a week in rural Alberta.

I ordered 'Best Effort' last week for central texas and before the equipment delivered, SL sent me an email that I was upgraded to regular service.

Love your videos!! I also love Starlink!!! Keep up the Starlink videos.

@jcristina

Жыл бұрын

Thank you. Blessings.

@karlk3491

Жыл бұрын

Hi Joe I’m sure you have heard about Starlink satellites that are falling from orbit? Maybe you could do a video about this? Cheers 👍

Thanks!

@jcristina

Жыл бұрын

You bet!🍵👍🏻

On waiting list for Starlink but have local phone line providing 30-40 down which gets me by. I want T-Mobile but when I respond to their ads, they reply with "stand by". Sounds like Starlink! I like your plan. Thanks for sharing all the data. Just two in the house so demands are not near what you deal with. Thanks again for the good work.

@jcristina

Жыл бұрын

Nice.

Thank You very very much!!!

@jcristina

Жыл бұрын

Thank you for watching.

¡Gracias!

@jcristina

Жыл бұрын

Thank you so much for the kindness. Truly appreciate it Claudio.

I am wait listed on T-mobile home internet lol! Great episode 👏👏👏Thanks!

@jcristina

Жыл бұрын

Thanks so much Arne. Appreciate you.

I have Starlink RV (Roam) on my Class B camper van (Thor 20A). Also got the TMobile 5G home router. Running it in 12V power and it's awesome (300Mbps down about 15 Mbps up)! I'm keeping Starlink as backup when I'm out in the boondocks without cell/5g coverage. I'll unpause only when I need it.

@jcristina

Жыл бұрын

Very smart.

Great content, very, very helpful.

@jcristina

Жыл бұрын

Thank you for being here.

Love these vids, living down here in coastal Oaxaca-Copalita Mexico. Thank god for Starlink, Hughes/Viasat are horrible here. But, we only have 1 ground station for Starlink(forgot what the word is) near Mexico City I believe, but still get consistent 100-200 Mbps dpwn but only less than 10 up. No big! Before was horrible with a data cap maybe 10Mbps down with Telcel. I've learned a lot J, thanks.

@jcristina

11 ай бұрын

Thanks for being here.

awesome presentation....so very helpful

@jcristina

Жыл бұрын

Thank you William.. Appreciate it.

@user-mp4if8os8d

Жыл бұрын

@@jcristina I particularly enjoyed your presentation because we have been struggling with finding a supplier of decent internet speeds and we were a customer of viasat and finally got fed up with the high price, data caps, and mediocre speeds. By the way, your presentation on hops and pops was a real eye opener.

Hi Joe, I have had the TMobile gateway the one you were holding. I had att U-verse mine sucked as well. Would reboot 5 or more times a day. I'm happy with my unit. But every 20 to 27 days it reboots it's self. I get about 150 to 400 down. But my upload usually 50 to 80 upload. Keep up the good work you do

@jcristina

Жыл бұрын

Amazing speed. You must be in a 5G area.

@michaelhornyak7506

Жыл бұрын

@@jcristina My unit is on the 1.5 floors above by a window and I can see two towers from up there, I also forgot to mention if you log into the unit from your computer you can see a few more things you don't see from the app on the phone. I'm mostly a stills camera guy, still camera shopping I was an advanced camera user. I was a 19-year-old with a flagship model ( back in the film days) I enjoy watching your channel because it shows all kinds of things.

Great combined info! I would already have T-Mobile home if they serviced my area, unfortunately i live in the sticks, not available. By the way I recently dropped Verizon hotspot with 25mb down 5-10 up with 300gb data on a business account for $60 per month, it wasn't great and would not support WiFi calling, but otherwise served us for 1 1/2 years until we got starlink. Thanks for all you do! Happy Easter!!

@jcristina

Жыл бұрын

😞

Thanks to you, I got my Starlink all lined out with my poor DSL as a backup using one of the routers you suggested. Yesterday I saw them installing fiber under my road. So, It's looks like I may be putting my RV service on "pause" soon if the price is right.

@jcristina

Жыл бұрын

Wow. Congrats!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!🎉

@ericstephens5271

Жыл бұрын

RV people got screwed over by Roam

Thanks for all the info. You are this family's go-to for Starlink info.

@jcristina

Жыл бұрын

I appreciate that🍵👍🏻🍵👍🏻😘

i I've had T-Mobile home internet for over a year. It's my backup and it's nice to have but with only receiving two bars at best is not the best all the time. If it was better connected and I got 5g all the time I might consider switching. My starlink has greatly improved in the past 6 months so pretty happy with that. Since your video about the dishes realigning I've seen a noticed improvement. Live in northwestern NC.

@jcristina

Жыл бұрын

I have three bar but will try out an external solution soon.

As I've said, We have fat copper available. Though it's 50 or 60 year old infrastructure. Spectrum bought the company. I got the spectrum 100 for 29.99 a month. It's still spotty. The lines need replacing. It's why I left the previous company. The previous company was charging over 100 a month for 100mb service that we were lucky to get 25mb on a good day. I can handle spotty service for 29.99. So we are doing spectrum and starlink dual wan.

From those tests, both T-Mobile and AT&T are suffering with bufferbloat. That means if you’re uploading or downloading, this will noticeable slow other devices and interrupt things like VOIP and video calling. In comparison Starlink is doing amazingly well on bufferbloat.

@jcristina

Жыл бұрын

Great point.

The 2 primary attractions to Starlink are usage in rural areas with zero cell, and portability. Not found any alternate to fill these requirements but still good info.

@petecoventry6858

Жыл бұрын

Agreed. I got sick of trying to find good cell signal and working out which providers I needed to purchase service from for the 3 weeks I am away eery other month. Now it's in a box in the RV garage and easy to pop on the roof. Love it and the fact I can pause it too is epic. Right now 209mbps down 27.5 up 21ms ping

@HighCountryRambler

Жыл бұрын

@@petecoventry6858 Better enjoy "roaming" while you can, it seems every feature I liked the most SL has dropped like portability. Therefore it's cheaper for me to pause SL and go back to my old ISP at the house (wireless PPTP), and use SL strictly for the RV. At least until they drop 'roaming'.. Great bandwidth you have, 6 months after I bought it they moved my home location from 'covered residential area' to 'coming in 2023', and dropped my bandwidth down to around 100mbps measured at the SL router.

Excellent advice

@jcristina

Жыл бұрын

Blessings.

Thanks

@jcristina

Жыл бұрын

🍵👍🏻

@jcristina

Жыл бұрын

Thank you so much for your support Steven!!!

Welcome to the T-Mobile family Joseph! Regards, Rick

@jcristina

Жыл бұрын

😜

I have 4 xboxs 1 Nintendo switch and 2 smart t.v.s on starlink and most of the time we are online with all the devices in our home and it don't skip a beat.

@jcristina

Жыл бұрын

Yep.

Used explorer net for the last 2 years, believe it's owned by Hugh's. It was 10 down and 2 up and I loved it. Just bought a starlink and it's much better. Sat is only option in Yukon. Still just after ordering starlink, explorer boosted my speed to 25 and 5. Too bad they were a day too late. What were they thinking? Bye the way, having to barely exist on 300 GB per month is definately a first world problem. TV never had to be 4k. Thanks for the video

I live in the sticks of northern Idaho, and previously my only option was my Verizon hotspot on my phone, which was mostly crap. A week with Starlink and I think i've officially moved into the 21st Century! Average 170 Down and 13 Up..... coming from 1.4 Down and 0.4 Up.

@jcristina

Жыл бұрын

Nice!!!!

@johnlaw8760

Жыл бұрын

IDPhotoMan We’re in north Idaho as well, but have noticed a decrease in speeds, corresponding to our dish turning more E/NE instead of North like it was originally. Is your dish oriented the same? Because I don’t think we’re reaching those speeds any longer

@IDPhotoMan

Жыл бұрын

@@johnlaw8760 it does point more northeasterly. The past few days I've ran the speed test and gotten about 135-150 normally.

@IDPhotoMan

Жыл бұрын

@@johnlaw8760 But there are also times when i barely get 100 as well. Seems like the network being tweaked a bit, maybe because of the lackluster gen-2 satellite problems.

I have to much invested in Starlink. Mesh TP installed speed have increased And since they have put the minis up getting better service. I did try TMO a while back waiting for Starlink, 4 G because I had not upgraded my T Mobil phone yet. I did get billed at 50 a month. And having trouble getting my 38 and change back from them. So customer service sucks. However, thanks to your videos I am happy now with starlink with the information that you give. I do have to move my dish being, I do get obstructions from tome to time, north facing. Many trees in the way. Again thank you for all your information that you share and I have shared your videos to our community network.

@jcristina

Жыл бұрын

Thank you for share with the community and being here.

i can speak for tmobile its deff the best internet going as far as wireless goes. its what im using while i wait for my starlink.

So I am in the UK> I have been in a house for years with a 1Gbps leased line. I then had 5G but I travel a lot and often had to move to get 11/12mbps on the best cell network in the area. I would spend ages working out which provider I needed to give me some service whilst I was away. (this is in an RV) but now I am in it gull time and I have Starlink. It's nice to not have to worry about coverage - and also i get better latency on Starlink than I did on the 5G.. SO for me, for now it's starlink all the way

@jcristina

Жыл бұрын

Amazing.

I have done exactly what you did, only before you did it. :) I find T-Mobile 5G to be slower, but still perfectly acceptable. It seems to be very reliable. Certainly, the price is right. I'm holding on to Starlink for the time being, but considering disconnecting because of their higher price. My primary ISP is Frontier fiber. Their price is very good and there's no throttling or cap. It's very fast (500/500) and works best although their customer service could use a little polish, in my opinion. Their installer said my fiber goes back to their server without need for amplification or relay. That's impressive! I had Spectrum (300/10) for quite a while, but their competition beat them in service and price. They were quasi reliable, with about two outages a month for many hours each.

@jcristina

Жыл бұрын

🍵👍🏻🍵👍🏻

I've had a very, very similar experience. In the townhouse, I just dumped AT&T after 25+ years. Constant promises of fiber that never happened, shitty speeds, high costs, and attempts to charge for service when I wasn't even there forced my hand. Switched to T-Mobile, and voila! At my Canadian lake house, I had extremely expensive, (and shitty 6Mbps), ADSL. There are no other options here, and not even cell coverage. Went with StarLink a week or so ago, and voila! Now to be fair, StarLink is more expensive on a monthly basis, but the service is in no way comparable. I also paid about $250.00 CDN for the hardware, so not bad at all! And zero charges when I'm not here, either. Absolutely the right way to go - T-Mobile 5G if you can, and StarLink if you can't. So to AT&T and Westport Telecom - "Buh-bye!"

@jcristina

7 ай бұрын

Smart!!!

I have to disagree on one thing. With TMobile home I have never lost signal even once. Not once. Now that TMobile has updated to UC 5g the signal is really good. With a 5G signal you can get 400 down. Better to stay on antenna 71 to keep your upload. Love you show.

I live on a remote island so for me, as long as any of these companies can actually provide me with good internet I'm not worried who it is, anything is better than what I have now

@visitante-pc5zc

Жыл бұрын

Which island?

@immosoulx319

Жыл бұрын

@@visitante-pc5zc the worlds remotest inhabited island, Tristan Da Cunha

@JacksonCampbell

Жыл бұрын

@@immosoulx319 How you get there and how does one live in a place like that? I can't imagine getting what you need.

@immosoulx319

Жыл бұрын

@@JacksonCampbell well its roughly a 7 day trip via ship to get here from cape town and its a small farming/fishing settlement and we have sat internet but its very limited with internet speeds below 1mb

You can adapt the T-Mobile home gateway to have external proxicast antennas. Puts your download speeds off the charts. The same as Starlink and at times better. 😉

@jcristina

Жыл бұрын

Wow. Nice.

Currently I have starlink roaming because it was the only option at the time. Is it possible to convert from roaming to best effort? At some point my reading suggested they were trying to deny conversions. Something to do with claims that the hardware was different. It's not. The dish I bought was purchased as a stationary dish and converted to roaming. It's a software/firmware change away from being the same dish that shipped.

Wow 50 a month before the coupon. Good for you! The mobile companies up here a dismal at best kinda like your AT&T. Great info J

@jcristina

Жыл бұрын

Thank you for that!!

Hey JC, great videos! I already setup a dual WAN setup with Starlink and T-Mobile connected to a Firewalla Gold in router mode. When "bonded/sharing" I get flakey results. When T-Mobile is set as my failover, things work a lot better. I suspect it's a double NAT issue but am not sure. You can't put the T-Mobile router into passthrough mode. I did run a script to disable the WiFi radios to cut down on interference with my mesh WiFi system. Be curious to see how your testing goes!

@jcristina

Жыл бұрын

Coming soon. Thanks so much for your setup!!

As an Aussie who can't get NBN nor ADSL and satellite is useless as piss. Starlink has been my best internet ever

Hi JCristina :) did you look in to the "calyx institute"?

I work from home and need to use a work computer that hooks into the router. We use VOIP for all phone calls. I finally got the email from Starlink saying I can order - my concern is what happens if it doesn’t work right with the voice over internet phone system.

As experienced and active “RV” and full business Starlink, the T-Mobile “home” or “small business” 5G router/service is great. Same for ATT true unlimited 5G is also same level as T-Mobile. ATT uses great portable/fixed (either way) battery back up Netgear router. We use both T-Mobile and ATT for business applications. Flawless. Either with built in antenna or external directional to a sector in a tower. ATT (NOT UVerse) seems faster over time. 300mbs down 32mbs up. T-Mobile is around 100-128mbs down, just under 30mbs up. External directional antenna increase sped a bit (both direction), and lowers jitter to under 30ms. FYI.

@jcristina

Жыл бұрын

I’ve not seen an UNLIMITED AT&T sim. Only one that throttles you once the data cap is reached.

@johnross6314

Жыл бұрын

@@jcristina it is available. We are not talking a SIM. It is complete system using Netgear MR6500 firmware NTGX65_10.04.22.01. Multiple speed plans available. For home and business use. “Unlimited” no over certain amount fees. They like T-Mobile like you have, show a fair use clause get out of jail where they can throttle someone back for nefarious reasons. We are not rogue operators, never seen any speed changes. I believe this is nation wide. Promoted ESPECIALLY for “UCurse” (UVerse) areas. Since no fiber is coming. One of our location is close by UVerse DSL/“cable” area. We get them at that store. I do not think it matters. I was in your neck of your woods for a month on biz. Used this as back up for Starlink “RV” service if issue in FL. No difference in service. Worked great. Portable, and battery operated if needed. It has Ethernet gig port and full wifi6. ATT 5 gig is decent. This device has multi cellular MIMO. Really jumps the speed over “5G” phone on ATT. I was surprised.

Can you explain how I can get best effort? I've ordered the residential but I'm stuck on a waitlist. Please help!!

Love the video. I have been watching all your Starlink videos once I found out that it is now available where I live. I'm in a small town in Northern Colorado that gets NO cell service, other than texting. I have to use a land line for my phone cause in an emergency cell just isn't going to work. So I can't use the T-mobile or Verizon internet service either. I have been using HughesNet for the last 4 years and it is absolute garbage! I was very excited that Starlink is now available and when I put my address in the Starlink order page they said I will get a system in 1 to 2 weeks. Once I have it I will be able to get rid of HughesNet and Dish TV and saving me 300+ dollars a month. And since it's just my wife and I, I'm sure 1TB will be plenty! Thanks for all your work and I can't wait to get my Starlink! 😁

@jcristina

Жыл бұрын

Thank you for being here.

Goodbye to Starlink? I think not!

@jcristina

Жыл бұрын

😉

We added an external panel antenna to T-Mobile gateway. Great improvement. Occasionally hit N41 band (tower out about 20 miles) and get over 100M down! T-Mobile no charge for equipment. $50/month for service month-to-month. This is much better than CenturyNoLink who can't deliver the promised 6M down and 600K up (on a very rare day).

@jcristina

Жыл бұрын

100% better.

I didn't hear where you mentioned it, but with T-Mo you get deprioritized at 150Gb. Where I live, it was pretty stable even with only two bars at about 40Mbps...but at 6pm-Midnight when all my neighbors get home from work we all destroy the local tower's bandwidth and I get 3k pings if I get a response at all. It's functionally useless during that time. You know...the main time I want to use it. Those deprioritization limits need to go way up for me to even think about replacing my Starlink dish. Verizon and AT&T's deprioritization limits were even lower last time I checked.

Love starlink. We live way out in the country and it's the best internet I've ever seen or had.

@jcristina

Жыл бұрын

Facts.

I assume you know about a dual Wan Router where you would get the best of starlink/Tmoble Thx for sharing... Good Luck....

Seriously…. I’m leaving from La Paz, Mx and sailing or Nuku Hiva, French Polynesia tomorrow morning (+2600miles/~28 days). Starlink is my 2nd option to my Winlink HF radio connection. I grew up with dial telephone and 2 dimes in a pay phone. I’m very happy with what I get, and when I don’t I’ll read a book. T-mobile isn’t going to cut it..😎

i dont tink so j but time will tell icredible video as always a big hug jc

@jcristina

Жыл бұрын

Blessings... A ton of work on this one but I wanted to provide as much information as possible. Hope it help people that are on the fence.

Are you still using speedify service or are you still using the failover utt alternative?

A spreadsheet comparison would have been nice.

Great video with comparisons. These T-Mobile and Verizon home services are probably work well for those folks living in town however, for those people living in rural areas are probably already having to use cell phone boosters in order to get their cell phone working. I wonder how those home services are going to work? Maybe, the starlink may be still the best way to for those folks living in middle of nowhere…. I’m just making a wild guess….🤔

@gstar7686

Жыл бұрын

I'm in a very rural area about 17 miles from the nearest cell tower with Verizon the only provider that has a usable signal. With my Yagi antenna the best download speed I can get on a good day is maybe 10 Mbps. Upload is barely 1 Mbps. For me Starlink is the best option.

@jcristina

Жыл бұрын

🍵👍🏻

@bluyetiinc7553

Жыл бұрын

​@@gstar7686 i have a similar experience with an off grid cabin. Zero cell service, but with tmobile home and a waveform antenna i was able to get close to 25mb down.

@DrGray-dh5mh

Жыл бұрын

Where I live I only had one cabled option that only gave 10 mbps down and 600 kbps to 1 mbps if lucky up. Or hughes net. Luckily I heard of Starlink and it is by far the fastest internet I have ever had my whole life haha I also have 3 kiddos and one of which is autistic who requires cocomelon on loop all day on all our 4k tvs. Speeds are great and has around 40 for latency most often so I can game and even stream myself gaming! Starlink has been a lifesaver. I use well over 1 TB every month and hughes net would of killed me with the caps!

@JacksonCampbell

Жыл бұрын

You add a Waveform antenna and get a huge boost in connectivity, especially if you're in an area where T-Mobile's bringing their rural 5G coverage.

I got my system in less than two weeks here in East Coast Canada, Plus it was half price for the system with residential service, They told me it would be a month wait to get it

If I have had alternatives I would have considered them. Where my cabin is there is no cable, no cell signal, no DSL. My only alternative was Starlink.

Thanks for the review, my starlink has been very good, T-Mobile sounds like a very good option if you can’t get starlink or afford it, would also be nice to see if you can travel with it ie RV

@jcristina

Жыл бұрын

Absolutely.

Another GREAT effort from you! I gave up Viasat after about a year and a half wait for Starlink and I am very happy. I have 2 questions for you. 1. How do I find out where my POP is? 2. On the Starlink at I have 13 devices listed on my network. Some of the devices are listed as UNKNOWN DEVICE. If I know what the device is, say a printer, How do I change/rename this Unknown Device to Printer? Thanks for the wonderful vids.

@a1hun

Жыл бұрын

For your first question using starlink satellite map you can see where your pop is and which satellite your dishy is connected to from the point of time you’re on the site

@jcristina

Жыл бұрын

Speedtest.net then see where the server is located where it does the sped test against. That is the location of your POP

J - consider this for your bonding project… Raspberry Pi4 w Speedify and a Wi-Fi adapter for each (starlink and TMobile and other) - then a 5G Wi-Fi for the home devices to connect to or Ethernet into a router that feeds the home. That is what I’m working on for my mobile church solution. 😅

@jcristina

Жыл бұрын

I had a similar thought.. Would be a fun project. Let me know how it goes!

Happy days getting fiber, rural Wexford county Michigan. Using T-Mobile now 2-6 down 1.5-3 up

@jcristina

Жыл бұрын

Wow. Ouch!!!

I'm on best effort now for a year and it's the best 110 I've spent a month and I've only had 1 outage that I didn't even realize because I was sleeping and I had to reboot the satalite and boom I'm back online..

Nice to know... You mentioned ways to help identify T-Mobile antennas (and/or other providers) and their characteristics. Could you please provide that information or links?

@jcristina

Жыл бұрын

Google. Locate cell tower near me. There are a few sites. I will search tonight and put it in the description tomorrow.

I would love to see your results on an external antenna for T-Mobile. I tried T-Mobile Home Internet and I was not able to connect to the 5G network either but my speeds were only 15 down and 10 up. I even ran it on an extension cord outside in clear skies to make sure it had the best reception possible. Returned it February 20th and I still don't have the refund... Starlink has been getting better and better over the past month or two while my TDS line has been getting quite a bit worse.

@jcristina

Жыл бұрын

Ouch!!!! You must have been a good distance from a tower. A large external antenna would have helped I believe.

JCristina 💯 agree with you about services out there with data cap's/limits, we live in Australia country area where decent NBN would never be available to us so we used to hotspot for gaming and had sky muster for downloading and watching videos BUT!! The only problem was the data cap, 80gig on peak & 180gig off peak data allowance was ridiculous always gone within 2 weeks. I started watching some of your content regarding starlink and obviously sceptical I bit the bullet and went for it and purchased starlink late last year 2022 luckily after they introduced the reduced price. Wow...! have never looked back and absolutely love it, with a family of 6 all gamer's sometimes 5 connected at once playing with next to no issues at all, sure it's costly but for us nothing could compare. Still watch a lot of your videos in regards to starlink and enjoy every minute of them, keep up the solid work and I'm loving Elon Musk more an more... FYI the speed we're getting are around 230down/15up & 35 latency

@marjorieburkiett5760

Жыл бұрын

Is there a limit on data? How much? We are with hughesnet and have a plan but paying like $140 a month.

@wadevonduve2030

Жыл бұрын

@@marjorieburkiett5760 starlink is $139 a month with unlimited data, atm they have dropped their price even more for the hardware. Jump onto it...

@marjorieburkiett5760

Жыл бұрын

Not available in my area yet.

Using both starlink(primary) tmobile (backup) had problems with starlink couple times. First time replaced 75' cable and ethernet connector. 2nd time replaced everything including dish.

@jcristina

Жыл бұрын

Thanks Joney.

Honestly I think Starlink is the best for my area on a good day I get 150 downloads but wirh Verizon I get here 3 download

I've checked the alternatives and none of the LTE residential are in my area... I was planning to get a hotspot (which would basically be an extra $50/mo plus the external entenna) to run on a Synology router with dual LAN but Starlink finally get me upgraded.

@jcristina

Жыл бұрын

Ahhhh.

There a number of videos for adding an external antenna to T-Mobile gateway. The speeds you are reporting for ATT universe are what I've gotten playing with T-mobile gateway in an 'un-served' area though the speeds do vary through out the day nighttime seems to be better

@jcristina

Жыл бұрын

Thanks for the acknowledgement.

Great video as always! I don’t see the links for the “best effort” scenario nor the cell tower location link.

@jcristina

Жыл бұрын

Best effort is selected when you go to purchase Starlink and residential is not available. If you Google cell towers near me. A few sight come up.

@mikeygee2465

Жыл бұрын

@@jcristina Ok, so does it come up once I click order now to reserve? I’m also wondering about visibility. I have several trees in my northern view. The app suggests trying another location, which unfortunately isn’t an option. Might be time to cut some trees.

I had T-Mobile home internet before Starlink was available. I swapped over because, even though the speed tests were similar for both, I got constant buffering when watching things online with T-Mobile. It was very inconsistent and the router (I had 2 since 1 died) would stop working at least once a day and wouldn't work until I rebooted it. I really wanted it to work since it is so cheap.

@petecoventry6858

Жыл бұрын

I spent years working for mobile tech support That is a sim or hardware problem

I live in a area with trash cell coverage. Starlink is literally my only option. I've tried every sat internet provider, every mobile broadband provider. Starlink blows them all away if you live in rural areas. Att even put up a new tower less than 4 miles from my house and my house is at such a low elevation the signal misses me.

@jcristina

Жыл бұрын

🍵👍🏻🍵👍🏻

@michaeljoyce2644

Жыл бұрын

Try mimo directional antenna and 4 g router. Have a provider for several years. Averages between 50 -150 down and 20 plus up with latency of around 20.

13:55 im pretty sure tvl and digicel or maybe just tvl do contracts here in vanuatu

Excellent information, I don't think I'll get Starlink thanks.

@jcristina

10 ай бұрын

👍🏻🍵👍🏻🍵

Hello, I've learned a lot from watching your shows here on youtube and first would like to say thank you. I do have a question for you though that I cant seem to find the answer for anywhere and thought you might know. If I bypass the starlink router and I'm using an AX wifi 6 router will the satellite dish still adjust on my roof if need be to find the best position like it did when it was connected to the starlink router? Thanks in advance, Arik

@jcristina

Жыл бұрын

Yep. It will.

@ariklindsay8894

Жыл бұрын

@@jcristina thank you, I followed what you said and the AX router was the way to go. I live on 5 acres and literally get a connection over half of it. Thanks for all the great content it’s been very helpful and thank you for taking the time to respond to my question.

Luv luv my Starlink ❤

@jcristina

Жыл бұрын

❤️

I absolutely love StarLink, I use it everyday for work and gaming. I have DSL running all streaming services so I don't go over any soon to be caps. The power goes out a lot where I live and all I have to do is fire up a generator and I am back working. Oddly enough I also like seeing the dish mounted knowing I did the work to get it there. The product is amazing. Everything is a true engineering marvel.

@jcristina

Жыл бұрын

Smart.

@viciadoemgames9113

6 ай бұрын

but starlink does not have data caps, you can stream even at 4k , you cannot achieve that with dsl

@FrequentVirtue

6 ай бұрын

@@viciadoemgames9113 yup! I have no desire to stream in 4K. UHD and HD look great on my 66 Inch flat screen. Also six months ago Starlink was going to set a data cap.

@viciadoemgames9113

6 ай бұрын

@@FrequentVirtue yes but good news, they didnt set data cap, and UHD is actually 4k

@FrequentVirtue

6 ай бұрын

@@viciadoemgames9113 Sorry HD. My DSL is only 9Mpbs download. Yes such good news they didn't. I still don't trust Starlink enough to drop DSL.

LOL. My alternatives are Hughesnet, Viasat and dial-up. I think I'll stick with Starlink until/if Project Kuiper becomes available.

@jcristina

Жыл бұрын

Smart.

I love this video, get all the city people off the star link system so I have better service. Yes I have no cell signal for 20+miles. Either way, I love the video.

@jcristina

Жыл бұрын

So glad you enjoyed it.

Us out in the sticks still seem to be screwed I have good signal on my phone from Verizon LTE but still can't get home internet cause they say it not available in my area

I have ATT fixed wireless and Starlink. I would do just ATT but they data cap at 350 gb. I used a switch to combine them. Now I used 200 gbs from each.

@jcristina

Жыл бұрын

smart!

I live outside city limits and have 20mbps with CenturyLink DSL. It isn't the best with multiple TV's, computers, tablets, and cellphones. I tried the T-Mobile 5G modem and had great speed between 11pm and 4am, then it dropped to terrible speeds all day. After three months, I had to get rid of it. I just hooked up my StarLink yesterday and the speed ranges from 38mbps to over 100mbps down throughout the day. I'm going to give it 30 days before I make the decision whether to cancel CenturyLink or not....

Getting Nomad Internet on Friday to try it out

@jcristina

Жыл бұрын

Make sure you can return it. I’ve heard some. Well. No so fantastic things.

that's some great speeds for the 4g network, that's what most of us get on NBN service here in Australia and that's if you are lucky.

@jcristina

Жыл бұрын

No bad.

Moved to Starlink, because in busy/peak times like everyday 6pm - 9pm is busiest time, when all coming back home and starting using 4g/5g around and all of them using same anthenas towers and everyone have bad internet. I think same will be happening on you, if you have a lot of people living around you. Thats why I moved to Starlink.

@jcristina

Жыл бұрын

🍵👍🏻

I left a message before. I have TWO Star link mobile units that are "Paused". I tried the T-Mobile unit a few months ago and was getting 500mb down. It costs 1/3 of Starlink and works while cloudy and rainy times.

@jcristina

Жыл бұрын

Yep. I’ve heard the same.

We are getting starlink in 1 week. , are we about to wifi our phones to it?

I ended up dropping Starlink for a couple of reasons. First off, on a good day I was only getting 25Mbps down and 8Mbps up, but the average was closer to 10Mbps down and latency was usually in the 90ms range. Second they had a price increase along with the throttling of data. With the TMO 5G service my speeds are consistent and average about 75Mbps down and 15Mbps up and latency in the 15-20ms range. Another thing that sweetened the deal was switching my mobile service to TMO also ended up saving me more money as it knocked the home internet down to only $30/mo. So, overall I am glad I moved away from Starlink. With that said, If I would have had better and consistent speeds, I would have likely stayed with it. Just wasn't a good fit for me.

@jcristina

Жыл бұрын

Great info.

@bryceh6268

Жыл бұрын

Makes sense. In my area we only have viasat, hughesnet, and dsl verizon. So starlink, even with best effort, was the best option. Viasat had a 100 GB limit. For us, 1 TB is not bad and we never hit it. As for the price...well, inflation does suck a great deal. But viasat was like 2.5 the price roughly so

Haven't been offered best effort yet. But, our roam service has really slowed down with all the upgrades to residential around us. We live in a 3 cell area around Yelm, Washington that didn't get bumped up to residential available. So close!!!

@jcristina

Жыл бұрын

The map changed yesterday. Check it out.

@shaylarae253

Жыл бұрын

@JCristina same 3 cells. We back up to JBLM military base. I wonder if that has anything to do with it. Also, all Western Washington was waitlisted, now it's sporadic cells over larger towns. Hopefully getting closer.

Gotta have solid cell service for those options though. Out where I'm at I get about one bar and my cell will default to wifi calling through Starlink. We had a cell outage for 3 days and I didn't know due to wifi calling.

@jcristina

Жыл бұрын

Or an external antenna.

@stephenurban9880

Жыл бұрын

@@jcristina External antenna can help (my neighbor has one and still only gets spotty cell service) but there are lots of places near me where they get zero bars (even with a booster) and satellite is literally the only option. Starlink is a life saver out here in rural Arizona.

I think you will get better speeds if you hook up an external antenna to the t-mobile...ahhh... I heard that you just mentioned that. I definitely get way better speeds with an external antenna. Though I'm using a modem/router that I got from China. I have had some down time with my tmobile internet.. but it hasn't been bad at all...

@jcristina

Жыл бұрын

I will look into the external.

I just ordered my T-Mobile 5G link. I plan to test it side-by-side with my current cable provider. Satellite internet hasn't sold me just yet. Internet can come in some crappy packages and I'm tired of paying for crap when gold is promised! Wish me luck!

@jcristina

Жыл бұрын

Likewise.

Could you take the SIM card out of the T-Mobile gateway and put it in the thing you were using for AT&T? If that is possible, then you might get a stronger signal, and therefore faster speeds.

@jcristina

Жыл бұрын

No. But as I understand it you can connect an external antenna to the unit.

I'll keep my starlink as long as we still are using 1TB of data. All the other providers around me have data caps lower than that.

I'm glad your removing yourself from Starlink. I'm being serious too. It's a great asset to have if you are remote. Sounds like you have plenty of other choices as a city dweller. Cheerio.

I've used the Elsys Amplimax with AT&T before, unfortunatley we do not use it anymore, because AT&T marks it as a 3G device because it has 3G capabilities so AT&T prevents it from being used when I tried using it. I'm not sure how you got around that I am curious to know how.

@jcristina

Жыл бұрын

Maybe it’s a different model??