Starlink The Satellite Internet Revolution
Starlink Review Done By Naomi Brockwell
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Starlink Review: New Era of Internet!
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my starlight kit just arrived and i’m
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super excited to set it up and do a
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speed test to compare it to my regular
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internet
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but first let’s talk about why it’s a
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game changer we’re on the cusp of a new
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internet revolution that involves
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satellites
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and a race to provide super fast
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internet to every
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inch of the world 40 of the population
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doesn’t have internet access
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if billions of people come online the
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world wide web will look
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like a very different place ordinarily
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to access the internet in remote
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villages
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you need cellular towers connected by
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copper cables
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and the costs of these are astronomical
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satellite internet already exists but
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it’s dominated by a handful of players
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that have huge satellites way up in
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space
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their services are expensive and
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connections have big lags because of how
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far
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above the earth the satellites live now
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many companies are racing to launch
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constellations of what are called low
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earth orbit satellites that are much
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smaller and much closer to earth it’s
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expected that these connections will be
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way faster
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the costs will be lower and service will
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be available
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everywhere you could be in a jungle in
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south america and
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if you had just an internet link somehow
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you could you’d have access to all of
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humanity’s information
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starlink says that their service will be
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available even in the poorest locations
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the improvements to education and
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medical services for these communities
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would be incredible and the whole nature
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of the internet would be
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changed completely if three billion more
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people were suddenly
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able to come online for the first time
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more than a dozen companies have applied
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for permission to operate constellations
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of satellites and provide this kind of
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internet
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service amazon has a project called
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project creeper
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but they have yet to finish their
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satellite’s design and begin launching
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one web is another major player but they
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were just bailed out of bankruptcy calls
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by covert and are now 45
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owned by the british government i have
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doubts that this government entanglement
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will enable them to move as fast as
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their competitors
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but they just released a new fleet of
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one web internet satellites last night
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so
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they’re definitely moving meanwhile
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spacex is leaving competitors in the
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dust
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so far they have over a thousand
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satellites in orbit and are already
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offering consumer
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services in beta i love that about elon
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musk he gets things done
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it’s their service they’ll be testing
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out today let’s see what’s in the box
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users get this pizza sized dish it
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clicks easily into a stand you plug it
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straight into the wall
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and into a rouser and voila high-speed
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internet the router itself is pretty
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cool looking too if a cyber truck were
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reincarnated as a router
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it would probably look like this all
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this equipment was five hundred dollars
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by comparison my current modem and
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router together cost 260 dollars so
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starlink equipment is around double the
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cost
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if you know how to use a drill then
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there are no installation costs you put
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the disc outside screw it down
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plug it into a power outlet and you’re
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done by comparison to have my old
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internet professionally installed cost
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me close to a hundred dollars now you
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should place the dish
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someone with a completely open sky any
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overhanging trees
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chimneys or roofs will give you
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connectivity issues i bought a pole to
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make sure
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the disk was high enough to be out of
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range of obstacles which cost
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thirty dollars you may be looking at
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extra installation costs to get the
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cords
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inside but if you’re handy with a drill
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then it shouldn’t be a problem
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the service itself is 99 a month which
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is just more than i was paying before at
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89.99
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so given that i am paying slightly more
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for the starlink
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am i getting more there’s probably a low
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bar there i have always been played with
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bad internet
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wherever i live weak connections that
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drop out in the middle of interviews
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but i’ve had no choice but to use
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certain internet providers because
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they were usually the only ones who
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offered service to wherever i lived
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and they had no real incentive to
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provide good service to me because
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they had no competition so what i’m
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super excited about is
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finally having a choice comparing
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services and saying
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i’ll choose the better one thanks so
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let’s see if the spacex service
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is actually better a speed test on my
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phone comparing the wi-fi connection of
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my old internet and the starlink
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connection
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showed that my old internet got 20
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megabits per second download
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to upload and starlink got 107 megabits
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per second download
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and 12 upload wowzers that’s
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5x download speed and 6x upload speed
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this is an incredible difference
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now 100 megabits is not as good as the
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one giga connections that my san
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francisco friends brag about
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but it’s way better than what i had and
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spacex says that once they have all
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their satellites deployed and they’re
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aiming for around
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30 000 it will dramatically improve data
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speed and latency even more
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so the verdict starlink could be the
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internet solution
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rural households are desperately in need
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of
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and also bring internet three billion
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people for the first time
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it could change the face of remote work
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opportunities as people continue to move
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out of large cities
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and spacex said that they’ll eventually
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be offering portable satellites too
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so you might be able to strip one to an
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rv or a sailing boat and
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work on the go it’s also really nice to
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see increasing competition in the
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internet service provider space
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providing higher speeds than previously
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available starlink is currently only
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available on a first come
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first serve basis and there are only
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about 10 000 people using starlight
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internet in the us
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and abroad it’s still in beta and there
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are bound to be connectivity issues
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until all the satellites are deployed
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and while they readjust
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so i’ll monitor how it goes and i’ll
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keep you posted i’ll also see how the
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satellite holds up in strong wind and
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snow
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but so far i am super happy with the
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purchase thank you spacex for dreaming
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big
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and providing cool tools