5 Mbps download and 0.5 Mbps. Last year they buried fiber optic cable up the valley where I live but they didn’t run the fiber optic to everyone’s house. They ran the fiber optic to a distribution box where the telephone lines are located and then ran it over the phone lines. I had DSL before this and this is much better now. I know that speed sounds slow but I can watch UA-cam videos and HULU with no buffering. It does take hours to upload a video, and I usually only have my videos at 1080p. There are faster speeds available but so far, I’m satisfied with what I have.
Have had fiber since 2010 (right after I left for college lol) but only dial-up before then. Dakota Central has been an excellent provider for our area, can't complain... they really setup the whole rural network to get everyone internet. 55 mb/s down, 5 mb/s up, 5 ms latency to my provider. It's megabits (Mbps) for internet speeds, not megabytes (MBps). I think generally it is 8 Mbps for 1 megabyte roughly, pending on other factors. Latency is the biggest thing for gaming... the lower the better. 45 ms isn't bad for being complete wifi/satellite connections.
8 Mbps (megabits per second) = 1 MBps (megabytes per second) This is an important distinction to make in order to understand whether you are getting the download speeds you are expecting. Sometimes customers think they are getting ripped off because different software will display your download speed with two different metrics.
We have been using the Starlink for 15 months up here in the St Croix river valley and nothing touches it. You will love it. When it gets slow it goes down as low as 80 mbps, My record speed is around 165.
I think mine was shipped to Ukraine, I can wait. My local service provider is in the process of being bought out. I expect my rates to jump, horribly!😱
@@ufo2go The dish is heated not the base. The type of snow Wisconsin gets the snow would literally build up around the dish and would affect its connectivity.
It looks like a couple of folks have briefly touched on this, but as a former IT guy, I feel compelled to hang a +1 on the BITS vs. BYTES thing. In short: Small "b" = "bits", capital "B" = "Bytes". There are eight (8) bits in each Byte, so you're looking at a factor-of-eight difference in bandwidth there. The "M" (for "Mega", of course) means the same in both cases; roughly a million of each unit. So it looked like you're averaging around 50 Mbps, or 50 MegaBITS per second. Divide that by 8 to get your MegaBYTES per second, so around six-and-change, six-and-a-quarter. You also mentioned getting up around 120 Mbps download speed. Divide by 8; call it 15 MegaBYTES per second or so. The reason it matters so much is because file sizes, like videos, are measured in BYTES, not BITS. So a ten GigaBYTE (10GB) 4K video file is still going to take a small chunk of time to upload, even at StarLink speeds. 10GB (GigaBYTES) = 10,000MB (MegaBYTES). Divide that 10,000 by 15 and you get roughly 667 seconds, or just over 11 minutes, assuming no hiccups, at 120 Mbps (15 MBps). Probably nowhere near what your sister can manage, but easily fast enough to run a few times a week, even in the busy season. Just don't expect to be able to do a lot of gaming while you're uploading. I can only assume ISPs keep using BITS per second versus BYTES per second as a bandwidth measurement because that way they can trumpet bigger raw numbers, so they all SOUND faster. Like a car company telling you your new Yugo has a top speed of, say, 264,000 feet per hour. Ordinarily, I'd never wax this pedantic on a comments section, but I think you deserve all the data you need to accurately calculate your ability to upload video since I'm also thinking the revenue from your Internet activity is a welcome addition to you and your family's farm operations. Imagine being off by a factor of eight when calculating crop yields / prices, seed / chemical / feed purchases, etc. And you've gone out of your way to spend a couple of videos a year talking about numbers for those of us whose farm knowledge started at virtually zero until we stumbled upon How Farms Work, for instance. It's been very enjoyably educational, and I hope this helps you a little bit in return. Alright, that's plenty out of me. Glad to hear StarLink is all you hoped for and more. Thanks for your content, and bumper yields to you and yours this coming season.
We’ve had starlink on our farm for about 2 months now and we’ve been loving it! Leaps and bounds ahead of the cellular based connection we had before. Hope it treats you as well as it has treated us!
Just a small correction; Mb/sec and MB/sec are 2 different things. Many of us are used to thinking in MegaBytes a second, but that's not what Mb/sec mean (stands for mega/bits, or 1/8 of a MegaByte MB). So a speed test of 68 Mb/sec is 68 megabits a second, divide by 8, you get about 8 MegaBytes a second. Always remember the conversion of 8 to 1
As you have a Flat spot on the roof of the house anchor the StarLink dish up there and it'll reduce the interference from the trees around the house.... Great Vid as Always....
also he needs to set it up proper and not have router behind the TV as that will mess with it also get a few axes points and have your main internet hungry stuff hard wired in
yah I wondered if he could put it on the roof or the top of one of the sides of the house or something to get it higher, and that is a good point, if you use the wifi in the starlink router you shouldn't put it behind a tv, cause the tv will hurt your wifi reception when you turn it on, but I understand that's probly the closest place, but if you really want to get good wifi, put it on the ceiling or right below the ceiling, a LOT less things to block the reception
I just got mine yesterday Thursday the 17th. Works great and my service address was not even in this part of the state so roaming is ON. I had a smile watching you jump around .
I am so impressed that you are able to make such high quality videos with your past capacity. In Norway the goverment spend money on expanding the fiber in households, even if the cost is higher than the price i will pay in my lifetime. I am paying 75 $/mth with 150/150. Hope this will be a sucess for you guys!
Ryan my internet is much slower than what u have it takes a minute to load up UA-cam on a good day bad days like 5 mins. So glad to see another video out keep up the good work.
Well may it wear for you guy's. I can feel your pain, internet in rural Ireland is still in the dark ages for a lot of folks. Supposed to be getting fibre in the next couple of months, I will be bouncing around the house like you when that day comes. :)
Thanks for the review. We are in the same boat. We live out in the country and we don't even have cell phone service. I will take a serious look at this.
Glad you were able to find a high speed solution. When my Mom got internet, I checked around for her and she gets it from a company in Dubuque( I don't remember the name), it's $45 a month and pretty fast, it uses a dish that connects to a tower by Holy Cross Iowa.
Nice box opening, installation, and short term review. I must have received my box at about the same time. I went ahead and ordered a bracket for it allowing me to mount it to the soffit by the peak of the roof. The Satellite Shop was the only one carrying a bracket fitting the StarLink V2 dish. It should be here by the weekend. I look forward to installing it and connecting for the first time.
Another great video and the excitement you show is awesome. It's so awesome to see how you are and thank you for sharing everything about your farm. Definitely makes me as a city person appreciate not only the things you do as a farmer but someone who is down to earth. God bless
Great system Ryan. I use mobile broadband, far more reliable than openreach, in the countryside. Not really many other options overhere. Your house is progressing well. 👍
Good to know! When my folks moved here to the Shiner farm in 2013, they couldn't get even dial-up, had to settle for Hughes net... what garbage! Their speed and service was pathetic, and VERY expensive! They finally dumped it about 6-7 years ago when GVEC (the local electric cooperative which basically does the phone and internet out here too-- course we don't do landline phones anymore, haven't for decades) came out with some service where they came out and installed a 10-15 foot pole on the side of the house with a dish pointing at one of their towers, some sort of repeater based system. It worked pretty good, but not particularly fast... still LIGHTNING fast compared to the stupid Hughes net! Then about six months ago, I heard some ruckus in the yard and found the utility guys out there installing a wire on the pole. Talked to them a bit turns out they were running fiber out-- gonna replace all the dishes/repeater system. Got fiber now and it's usually pretty good. Uploads actually faster than downloads now most of the time. Funny thing is, my BIL has fiber from his phone company (RTC) in northern Indiana, but his sucks for speed. BUT it was early fiber and I think whatever connects it to the house that is the problem. Course his phone service (ATT) absolutely sucks-- he's had a "booster" in the basement but it will only service five phones, and I'm one of them (but the kids aren't, since I'm up there for harvest and planting a lot they put me on it) and it helped a LOT, but now ATT is getting rid of it because it's 3G tech and won't work with the 5G stuff they're putting out now, so who knows if he'll even have any phone signal out there anymore. Before they got the booster, I had to go sit in the shed on the tongue of the manure spreader to get a signal to make a cell phone call LOL:) Later! OL J R :)
awsome video ryan i herd nothing but great things about starlink infact girlfriend just got her starlink in and cant wait to start doing movies and stuff with her and be able to up load my videos there one of the best things out there by far glad you got one hopefully live streaming in the fieald is abit better this time lol thumbs up and shared
Been using Starlink for a month now. Up here in the mountains of New Hampshire we get any where from 126~259 down 5~18 up. Beats the 7~1 DSL that we had !!!
weve had starlink on our farm since mid 2020 we love it our speeds in mid canada have been 50 -180 on average the highest ive seen it go is 300 would recomend getting
G’ job Ryan as always. Gonna look into starlink I’m in your situation, I am 1200 ft from fiber optic but no access yet my son lives just across the 40 acre pasture and gets fiber optic speed...we are always going to his house to use internet so I feel your frustration and hope to remedy it like you have...keep em comin 💪🏻🇺🇸💪🏻
If you have a clear view to your son's house, ya might look into AyrStone wireless bridge connection. With their long-distance Wi-Fi antenna strapped to the TV antenna, I can pickup Wi-Fi over 1,500ft out in the field on my phone. They have a fixed receiver that would basically allow you to route Wi-Fi from your son's house back into your house.
Hello Ryan. You talked about adding a deck to your house. A deck will increase the taxes on the house and could change the lot line set backs. If you make a cement patio the zoning and building permits will not be needed.
We don't need no stinking permits out in the country... we do whatever the h3ll we like LOL:) Least in Texas we do. Basically ANYTHING you do will increase the taxes, due to "improvements" increasing the valuation. Later! OL J R :)
You want slow? I did a complete online Master's degree (graduated in 2000) on dial up. The university was in Calgary Alberta and I am in rural Ontario. Painful does not adequately describe it. Starlink sounds like a dream.
Hey Ryan. I’m in Ontario Canada. Ordered my star link over a year ago. Might get it by fall. Our local internet is very slow. Might get 15 through the day. Evenings is drops down to 6 or 7.
Nice snail 😊. Welcome to the modern era. Hope that this changes rural America as it should. I can’t wait until they offer it for mobile. How exciting though.
Coming from The UK, it's crazy to see a family home in such immense isolation! Even most farmhouse's over here are not without visual access to the nearest other homes. I can imagine that it can get pretty hairy out where you are when some rough weather rolls through!
Aw heck that's nothing compared to West Texas... some folks out there, nearest neighbor is FIFTY MILES away! Pretty much how I like it myself! People as a rule SUCK! LOL:) Later! OL J R :)
i have had starlink in rural central alberta canada for almost a year now, it been pretty solid for stream, browsing and even gaming. The gaming side im sure will get better as time goes on where the latancy will get better, but for now its the only thing thats good in our area and defiantly with a look at for anybody that lives on a farm
I live in North eastern N.c and on May 9, 2021 our family was outside at night getting ready to send the type of balloons that u light to send up in the sky for the remembering of our 10 year old grandson who died in may 2020 While we were looking up in the sky a star link rocket came over letting satellite's out in space. We counted at less 10 . The rocket took off from the Virginia Eastern Shore. We know it was a sign from AJ.
Our rural phone service is a COOP. 300 down 149 up. $49 a month 9 miles from town. Total phone bill (with taxes and internet included) 89 a month with no long distance. Use the cell phone for long distance.
I was really impressed with how easy it was to set up. Luckily for me there are no obstructions anywhere on my property, so I was able to mount the dish to my roof. I was also surprised at how stable and consistent it is. Beats the 10mb dsl lines that I’m paying 75 a piece for with 2 lines. I usually see around 80-120 depending on time of day and cloud coverage.
I got the StarLink installed a little over a month ago now. I had an old tv aerial on the roof, we didn’t use anymore, so it came down, and I mounted the StarLink dish to what was the roof mounting for the aerial. The cable was just long enough for the installation. The performance is great relative to the old satellite based system and slightly cheaper, even after StarLink raised the monthly service price. I would not go back to the old internet, even if they lowered the price to half.
In CA a 50 year Owen's corning shingle roof cost is $400.00 a square (10x10) and retails for 600 plus. Beautiful Roof. Factor in the wedding savings and throw the party on farm to fund finishing the siding, new windows and trex deck. Nothing like a wedding or graduation to get projects done on farm.
Hey I just got my Starlink gen 2 “rectangular” type. I thought I seen on UA-cam somewhere that you’re supposed to peel the white film off the front of this dish… so I did, it’s working, but maybe I should not have done that????!!! Freaking out a little!
See if Travis will let you use his single shank subsoiler. Attach a 1/2 inch piece of pipe to help lay the cable/fiber in the ground. Just a idea instead of digging then laying then covering.
Yep I got some flat scrap steel plate and made a "boot" for our old Dearborn subsoiler... bolts right on the side real easy. Put one of them 4-5 inch steel flat/back idler pulleys from TSC at the bottom, and we used it to lay about 1,000 feet of poly tube water line from the well around the corner of the barn to where we wanted to put cow troughs... My brother put the 5610 Ford in low gear idling, we dug a hole near the well pad and dropped the subsoiler in it, and then he took off at a walking pace, while I walked alongside unrolling the tubing and guiding it down into the boot, the poly tubing sliding down between the plates and rolling under the idler pulley into the ground. Worked great! Later! OL J R :)
The big dishes were great. You never lost signal to weather like you do with the little ones. We got our big dish back in the 80's. We had tons of channels including all the movie channels like HBO & Cinemax. I think we had 10 different movie channels back then. The best part was that it was all free. For several years we never paid a penny for satellite tv. Then when we had to start paying the highest we paid was $35 a month. I now pay $145 a month for satellite. I pay about $42 a month for 30 mbps.
The roof looks great Ryan. We have a Mennonite family near us that manufactures metal roofing in their plant in Estacada,Oregon. I used their materials when I rebuilt my carport. I will be hiring them when I redo my house roof in a few years. I am a little concerned about noise with our rainy season but I will take the chance.
The noise factor will depend on how installed. Pole barn situation with non insulated metal panels. The path of the sound isn’t suppressed. Basically is a drum skin being played by tiny raindrops. House / building. The you should have roof sheathing and other insulation that will suppress this affect. I will try to get back with link to some resources for you to learn what is needed
Get the thermal barrier at the same time... it'll raise the cost BUT you'll more than make up for it in power bill savings and it'll quiet the metal roof right down in rainstorms... Later! OL J R :)
Fun fact that took me 10 years to learn. Internet speeds are usually listed in Mbps which is mega bits. Files are in MB which is mega bytes and those are not the same thing. I think there are 6 bits in a byte or something. So I get 300 Mbps download which works out to about 37 MBps download, which is actually how it should be. I think at least I might have that the wrong way around. To be clear this helps not at all and I'm sure you weren't getting what you paid for because I know that was pretty common growing up on the farm. But yeah I thought I was being cheated for years when I wasn't Edit: 8 bits in a byte.
Hey Ryan!! Was looking into Starlink several months ago but wasn't available here yet. Could give us a 30 day update on it, pros, cons? Interested in your camera system too. Would like to get something for my place.
I'm getting 150MBs down and 40MBs up on my Starlink that I installed about a month ago. I'm actually being held back on some speed because of the wireless connection and I've order the ethernet connector for hardwire connection.
I do not have my starlink dish yet. If you wonder why I am anticipating receiving my dish next month, centurylink states I can get ‘up to’ 10Mbps. That means somewhere between 0 and 10 if you interpret it like I do. My download speed is a blistering 0.4Mbps on a good day. Upload speed running about half that. My water faucet drips faster than my internet. But I plan to cut that cord next month.
Sir if you have a old single point plow or one of your local farmers have one you can use it to dig the trench for the cable . Quick to dig with tractor and easy to cover up with the JCB .
When the put a new wire in to my brother's house recently, they just used a spade to cut through the lawn, wobbled it back and forth to open a trench, and shoved the wire down in it, then another guy walked along behind stomping it closed again LOL:) Later! OL J R :)
If, from the top of your grain bin see your sisters you could use something like a Ubiquiti Airfibre link. Pair of dishes. Then after the first purchase you do not pay any rental. Then you use your sisters internet link.
Ryan Grissett is correct. There are 8 bits in 1 Byte. 8Mb/s = 1MB/s. Megabit is different than a MegaByte. Megabit is the data speed... MegaByte is the actual data being transferred.
Would love to hear a month review. My folks have exede, i been holding out on them getting cell internet as towers have been put in the area. Been waiting for 20 years to get decent broadband.
I pay around $50 for 200Mbps download (Palm Springs), but I only get that if I'm hardwired with Cat 6 to my modem. Using my computer's wifi, my download is around 110Mbps ( just checked). Meh, good enough for me.
We've been using our mobile Hotspot from T-Mobile and it was SLOW, like downloading games at .80 kbps/second slow. When I hear starlink was coming i freaked out. Now our signal beats the local fiber, its stupid fast. Definitely recommend if you wanna pay for it
Comment your internet speed below! ....and Hannah says I don't dance 🤣
Lol… you don’t 😂 but you try!
30mb down...1 mb up😫
@@hannahsmith239 Ryan dances better than me with my to left feet…..but after a few drinks 🕺🏿
5 Mbps download and 0.5 Mbps. Last year they buried fiber optic cable up the valley where I live but they didn’t run the fiber optic to everyone’s house. They ran the fiber optic to a distribution box where the telephone lines are located and then ran it over the phone lines. I had DSL before this and this is much better now. I know that speed sounds slow but I can watch UA-cam videos and HULU with no buffering. It does take hours to upload a video, and I usually only have my videos at 1080p. There are faster speeds available but so far, I’m satisfied with what I have.
Have had fiber since 2010 (right after I left for college lol) but only dial-up before then. Dakota Central has been an excellent provider for our area, can't complain... they really setup the whole rural network to get everyone internet. 55 mb/s down, 5 mb/s up, 5 ms latency to my provider.
It's megabits (Mbps) for internet speeds, not megabytes (MBps). I think generally it is 8 Mbps for 1 megabyte roughly, pending on other factors. Latency is the biggest thing for gaming... the lower the better. 45 ms isn't bad for being complete wifi/satellite connections.
8 Mbps (megabits per second) = 1 MBps (megabytes per second)
This is an important distinction to make in order to understand whether you are getting the download speeds you are expecting. Sometimes customers think they are getting ripped off because different software will display your download speed with two different metrics.
We have been using the Starlink for 15 months up here in the St Croix river valley and nothing touches it. You will love it. When it gets slow it goes down as low as 80 mbps, My record speed is around 165.
Does it ever go down completely
I think mine was shipped to Ukraine, I can wait. My local service provider is in the process of being bought out. I expect my rates to jump, horribly!😱
@@agger838 Over the last 6 months it was down for 1 morning, about 3 hours. Otherwise it has been solid.
@@wulfjason Just, got notification from Starlink, will be shipped out shortly.
Consider moving the dish to the flat center of the roof. Looks like it could eliminate the tree issues.
be a pain to clean snow off of it though
@Bret Rubash They are heated for snow removal. I can see a tractor rolling over dishy if it's left on the ground!👍
@@ufo2go The dish is heated not the base. The type of snow Wisconsin gets the snow would literally build up around the dish and would affect its connectivity.
It looks like a couple of folks have briefly touched on this, but as a former IT guy, I feel compelled to hang a +1 on the BITS vs. BYTES thing. In short: Small "b" = "bits", capital "B" = "Bytes". There are eight (8) bits in each Byte, so you're looking at a factor-of-eight difference in bandwidth there. The "M" (for "Mega", of course) means the same in both cases; roughly a million of each unit.
So it looked like you're averaging around 50 Mbps, or 50 MegaBITS per second. Divide that by 8 to get your MegaBYTES per second, so around six-and-change, six-and-a-quarter. You also mentioned getting up around 120 Mbps download speed. Divide by 8; call it 15 MegaBYTES per second or so.
The reason it matters so much is because file sizes, like videos, are measured in BYTES, not BITS. So a ten GigaBYTE (10GB) 4K video file is still going to take a small chunk of time to upload, even at StarLink speeds. 10GB (GigaBYTES) = 10,000MB (MegaBYTES). Divide that 10,000 by 15 and you get roughly 667 seconds, or just over 11 minutes, assuming no hiccups, at 120 Mbps (15 MBps). Probably nowhere near what your sister can manage, but easily fast enough to run a few times a week, even in the busy season. Just don't expect to be able to do a lot of gaming while you're uploading.
I can only assume ISPs keep using BITS per second versus BYTES per second as a bandwidth measurement because that way they can trumpet bigger raw numbers, so they all SOUND faster. Like a car company telling you your new Yugo has a top speed of, say, 264,000 feet per hour.
Ordinarily, I'd never wax this pedantic on a comments section, but I think you deserve all the data you need to accurately calculate your ability to upload video since I'm also thinking the revenue from your Internet activity is a welcome addition to you and your family's farm operations. Imagine being off by a factor of eight when calculating crop yields / prices, seed / chemical / feed purchases, etc. And you've gone out of your way to spend a couple of videos a year talking about numbers for those of us whose farm knowledge started at virtually zero until we stumbled upon How Farms Work, for instance. It's been very enjoyably educational, and I hope this helps you a little bit in return.
Alright, that's plenty out of me. Glad to hear StarLink is all you hoped for and more. Thanks for your content, and bumper yields to you and yours this coming season.
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I'm with you on that one. It gives me such an itch when people incorrectly says bytes instead of bits because I know the difference
We’ve had starlink on our farm for about 2 months now and we’ve been loving it! Leaps and bounds ahead of the cellular based connection we had before. Hope it treats you as well as it has treated us!
Just a small correction; Mb/sec and MB/sec are 2 different things. Many of us are used to thinking in MegaBytes a second, but that's not what Mb/sec mean (stands for mega/bits, or 1/8 of a MegaByte MB). So a speed test of 68 Mb/sec is 68 megabits a second, divide by 8, you get about 8 MegaBytes a second. Always remember the conversion of 8 to 1
As you have a Flat spot on the roof of the house anchor the StarLink dish up there and it'll reduce the interference from the trees around the house.... Great Vid as Always....
also he needs to set it up proper and not have router behind the TV as that will mess with it also get a few axes points and have your main internet hungry stuff hard wired in
Unless you get an ice storm or a foot of snow and it doesn't melt. Still very good, but not AS good. Also, climbing up for an repairs would be a PITA.
yah I wondered if he could put it on the roof or the top of one of the sides of the house or something to get it higher, and that is a good point, if you use the wifi in the starlink router you shouldn't put it behind a tv, cause the tv will hurt your wifi reception when you turn it on, but I understand that's probly the closest place, but if you really want to get good wifi, put it on the ceiling or right below the ceiling, a LOT less things to block the reception
22mi from town. 5 mi from a paved road. 9 mi from a power line. My starlink comes tomorrow and i cant wait.
I've had my starlink for almost 2 months now...best thing I have ever bought! I do a lot of gaming and have never had an issue since getting it.
As the alien mothership glides slowly over Wisconsin they look out the window and they're like "sweet Ryan's got fast Internet now"
I had the same reaction when my starlink came last January. It's still working great! You won't regret it!
I just got mine yesterday Thursday the 17th. Works great and my service address was not even in this part of the state so roaming is ON. I had a smile watching you jump around .
I am so impressed that you are able to make such high quality videos with your past capacity. In Norway the goverment spend money on expanding the fiber in households, even if the cost is higher than the price i will pay in my lifetime. I am paying 75 $/mth with 150/150. Hope this will be a sucess for you guys!
I have STARLINK in Upstate NY.
We love it!
Ryan my internet is much slower than what u have it takes a minute to load up UA-cam on a good day bad days like 5 mins. So glad to see another video out keep up the good work.
Ryan, I love your enthusiasm. Thanks for providing us the wonderful content.
I’ve had Starlink for about a month now and it’s been a game changer for us.
thanks for the review, we live in the smoky mountains so I wonder how Starlink would work here, and your roof looks great
I've had fiber optic for 12 years . Red river communications is my provider. They have been great, And they have been expanding every year.
The snail 🐌 was so so great. Speed in Western Wisconsin is about the same. Thanks 😊.
Well may it wear for you guy's. I can feel your pain, internet in rural Ireland is still in the dark ages for a lot of folks. Supposed to be getting fibre in the next couple of months, I will be bouncing around the house like you when that day comes. :)
Yes, please do a video on the security cameras. I'm in a similar situation and all this info is a great help. Thank you, God bless you.
Thanks for the review. We are in the same boat. We live out in the country and we don't even have cell phone service. I will take a serious look at this.
Just got my Starlink package too! Ordered it more than a year ago.
Game changer for rural America. Can't wait for it to become widely available so I can move back in the country.
Glad you were able to find a high speed solution. When my Mom got internet, I checked around for her and she gets it from a company in Dubuque( I don't remember the name), it's $45 a month and pretty fast, it uses a dish that connects to a tower by Holy Cross Iowa.
It is a great product, you can get mounts for pole and roof. I have friend in upper New York loves it. Only service up there is dial up, or cell.
Nice box opening, installation, and short term review.
I must have received my box at about the same time. I went ahead and ordered a bracket for it allowing me to mount it to the soffit by the peak of the roof. The Satellite Shop was the only one carrying a bracket fitting the StarLink V2 dish. It should be here by the weekend. I look forward to installing it and connecting for the first time.
Another great video and the excitement you show is awesome. It's so awesome to see how you are and thank you for sharing everything about your farm. Definitely makes me as a city person appreciate not only the things you do as a farmer but someone who is down to earth. God bless
The birds saying WHAT got me laughing out loud at work in a normally quiet office 🤣
Went there several times beginning as a kid in the ‘70s…its changed so much up there…
We mounted my father in law's Starlink dish on the side of the building. Works great!
Enjoyed the video - consider adding a playlist for SL, and I am especially interested in your camera setup - thanks!
Great system Ryan. I use mobile broadband, far more reliable than openreach, in the countryside. Not really many other options overhere. Your house is progressing well. 👍
Nice to see the cool table that you and Hanna painted getting good use
Good to know! When my folks moved here to the Shiner farm in 2013, they couldn't get even dial-up, had to settle for Hughes net... what garbage! Their speed and service was pathetic, and VERY expensive! They finally dumped it about 6-7 years ago when GVEC (the local electric cooperative which basically does the phone and internet out here too-- course we don't do landline phones anymore, haven't for decades) came out with some service where they came out and installed a 10-15 foot pole on the side of the house with a dish pointing at one of their towers, some sort of repeater based system. It worked pretty good, but not particularly fast... still LIGHTNING fast compared to the stupid Hughes net! Then about six months ago, I heard some ruckus in the yard and found the utility guys out there installing a wire on the pole. Talked to them a bit turns out they were running fiber out-- gonna replace all the dishes/repeater system. Got fiber now and it's usually pretty good. Uploads actually faster than downloads now most of the time.
Funny thing is, my BIL has fiber from his phone company (RTC) in northern Indiana, but his sucks for speed. BUT it was early fiber and I think whatever connects it to the house that is the problem. Course his phone service (ATT) absolutely sucks-- he's had a "booster" in the basement but it will only service five phones, and I'm one of them (but the kids aren't, since I'm up there for harvest and planting a lot they put me on it) and it helped a LOT, but now ATT is getting rid of it because it's 3G tech and won't work with the 5G stuff they're putting out now, so who knows if he'll even have any phone signal out there anymore. Before they got the booster, I had to go sit in the shed on the tongue of the manure spreader to get a signal to make a cell phone call LOL:) Later! OL J R :)
Great video, lots of happy energy, interesting narrative and liked that slow-crawling snail !
Watching Ryan dance...so worth the video!!
Something I need as well
Sitting here in Eastern Iowa, 1.34 mb down, .32mb up. Will try starlink!
Glad you're able to juice up your internet.
We've been lucky that they ran high speed out here in the country years ago.
Good luck with it.
Take care.
awsome video ryan i herd nothing but great things about starlink infact girlfriend just got her starlink in and cant wait to start doing movies and stuff with her and be able to up load my videos there one of the best things out there by far glad you got one hopefully live streaming in the fieald is abit better this time lol thumbs up and shared
that was awesome, hoping to have that soon
Excellent roof
Been using Starlink for a month now. Up here in the mountains of New Hampshire we get any where from 126~259 down 5~18 up.
Beats the 7~1 DSL that we had !!!
This Farm Wife, Meredith got hers in the last few days! Excited for you guys!
Awesome metal roof!
Congrats on yer Dishy
I saw the video on the making that table. How cool is it that it made it into this video. Thanks for sharing. Happy subscriber 😊!
Awesome! glad you're finally able to do what you need to do!
weve had starlink on our farm since mid 2020 we love it our speeds in mid canada have been 50 -180 on average the highest ive seen it go is 300 would recomend getting
G’ job Ryan as always. Gonna look into starlink I’m in your situation, I am 1200 ft from fiber optic but no access yet my son lives just across the 40 acre pasture and gets fiber optic speed...we are always going to his house to use internet so I feel your frustration and hope to remedy it like you have...keep em comin 💪🏻🇺🇸💪🏻
If you have a clear view to your son's house, ya might look into AyrStone wireless bridge connection. With their long-distance Wi-Fi antenna strapped to the TV antenna, I can pickup Wi-Fi over 1,500ft out in the field on my phone. They have a fixed receiver that would basically allow you to route Wi-Fi from your son's house back into your house.
@@farminstoltzfus thx for the info
Hello Ryan. You talked about adding a deck to your house. A deck will increase the taxes on the house and could change the lot line set backs. If you make a cement patio the zoning and building permits will not be needed.
We don't need no stinking permits out in the country... we do whatever the h3ll we like LOL:) Least in Texas we do. Basically ANYTHING you do will increase the taxes, due to "improvements" increasing the valuation. Later! OL J R :)
You want slow? I did a complete online Master's degree (graduated in 2000) on dial up. The university was in Calgary Alberta and I am in rural Ontario. Painful does not adequately describe it. Starlink sounds like a dream.
Slow internet is pretty frustating, but it's nice to see that that's not a problem anymore😉👍
Hey Ryan. I’m in Ontario Canada. Ordered my star link over a year ago. Might get it by fall. Our local internet is very slow. Might get 15 through the day. Evenings is drops down to 6 or 7.
Great stuff Ryan, well wear on Your new roof and new internet, Happy St. Patrick's Day👍🙂☘☘
Nice snail 😊. Welcome to the modern era. Hope that this changes rural America as it should. I can’t wait until they offer it for mobile. How exciting though.
Coming from The UK, it's crazy to see a family home in such immense isolation! Even most farmhouse's over here are not without visual access to the nearest other homes. I can imagine that it can get pretty hairy out where you are when some rough weather rolls through!
Aw heck that's nothing compared to West Texas... some folks out there, nearest neighbor is FIFTY MILES away! Pretty much how I like it myself! People as a rule SUCK! LOL:) Later! OL J R :)
@@lukestrawwalker haha yes, they certainly do!! I could easily go for some of that Texas isolation myself!
i have had starlink in rural central alberta canada for almost a year now, it been pretty solid for stream, browsing and even gaming. The gaming side im sure will get better as time goes on where the latancy will get better, but for now its the only thing thats good in our area and defiantly with a look at for anybody that lives on a farm
I live in North eastern N.c and on May 9, 2021 our family was outside at night getting ready to send the type of balloons that u light to send up in the sky for the remembering of our 10 year old grandson who died in may 2020 While we were looking up in the sky a star link rocket came over letting satellite's out in space. We counted at less 10 . The rocket took off from the Virginia Eastern Shore. We know it was a sign from AJ.
Our rural phone service is a COOP. 300 down 149 up. $49 a month 9 miles from town. Total phone bill (with taxes and internet included) 89 a month with no long distance. Use the cell phone for long distance.
can add cable for 26 and up
I'll be watching for this closely!
I was really impressed with how easy it was to set up. Luckily for me there are no obstructions anywhere on my property, so I was able to mount the dish to my roof. I was also surprised at how stable and consistent it is. Beats the 10mb dsl lines that I’m paying 75 a piece for with 2 lines. I usually see around 80-120 depending on time of day and cloud coverage.
I got the StarLink installed a little over a month ago now. I had an old tv aerial on the roof, we didn’t use anymore, so it came down, and I mounted the StarLink dish to what was the roof mounting for the aerial. The cable was just long enough for the installation. The performance is great relative to the old satellite based system and slightly cheaper, even after StarLink raised the monthly service price. I would not go back to the old internet, even if they lowered the price to half.
In CA a 50 year Owen's corning shingle roof cost is $400.00 a square (10x10) and retails for 600 plus. Beautiful Roof. Factor in the wedding savings and throw the party on farm to fund finishing the siding, new windows and trex deck. Nothing like a wedding or graduation to get projects done on farm.
Hey I just got my Starlink gen 2 “rectangular” type. I thought I seen on UA-cam somewhere that you’re supposed to peel the white film off the front of this dish… so I did, it’s working, but maybe I should not have done that????!!! Freaking out a little!
See if Travis will let you use his single shank subsoiler. Attach a 1/2 inch piece of pipe to help lay the cable/fiber in the ground. Just a idea instead of digging then laying then covering.
I would do that but there's other cabling. That may work well though across the driveway!
Yep I got some flat scrap steel plate and made a "boot" for our old Dearborn subsoiler... bolts right on the side real easy. Put one of them 4-5 inch steel flat/back idler pulleys from TSC at the bottom, and we used it to lay about 1,000 feet of poly tube water line from the well around the corner of the barn to where we wanted to put cow troughs... My brother put the 5610 Ford in low gear idling, we dug a hole near the well pad and dropped the subsoiler in it, and then he took off at a walking pace, while I walked alongside unrolling the tubing and guiding it down into the boot, the poly tubing sliding down between the plates and rolling under the idler pulley into the ground. Worked great! Later! OL J R :)
Dam rayon having spring fever attack
The big dishes were great. You never lost signal to weather like you do with the little ones. We got our big dish back in the 80's. We had tons of channels including all the movie channels like HBO & Cinemax. I think we had 10 different movie channels back then. The best part was that it was all free. For several years we never paid a penny for satellite tv. Then when we had to start paying the highest we paid was $35 a month. I now pay $145 a month for satellite. I pay about $42 a month for 30 mbps.
LOVE the new roof
Had it for just over a year. Worked very well, got fiber now, so if you need another one let me know :)
The roof looks great Ryan. We have a Mennonite family near us that manufactures metal roofing in their plant in Estacada,Oregon. I used their materials when I rebuilt my carport. I will be hiring them when I redo my house roof in a few years. I am a little concerned about noise with our rainy season but I will take the chance.
The noise factor will depend on how installed.
Pole barn situation with non insulated metal panels. The path of the sound isn’t suppressed. Basically is a drum skin being played by tiny raindrops.
House / building. The you should have roof sheathing and other insulation that will suppress this affect.
I will try to get back with link to some resources for you to learn what is needed
Is that asbestos siding on that house?
Other scene it looks like Masonite. Possibly a mix buy hopefully not the a word
Why not mount on top of the metal shed behind your picnic table.
Get the thermal barrier at the same time... it'll raise the cost BUT you'll more than make up for it in power bill savings and it'll quiet the metal roof right down in rainstorms... Later! OL J R :)
Looks good hopefully available here in the UK. My wired broadband is similar to yours very slow and miles from fibre connection.
Awesome video Ryan!
Hi Ryan. I had an idea but did you think of putting the dish up on your roof of the house instead of down on the ground.
Yep I agree with that, man that flat area on top would be great....👍
Fun fact that took me 10 years to learn. Internet speeds are usually listed in Mbps which is mega bits. Files are in MB which is mega bytes and those are not the same thing. I think there are 6 bits in a byte or something. So I get 300 Mbps download which works out to about 37 MBps download, which is actually how it should be. I think at least I might have that the wrong way around. To be clear this helps not at all and I'm sure you weren't getting what you paid for because I know that was pretty common growing up on the farm. But yeah I thought I was being cheated for years when I wasn't
Edit: 8 bits in a byte.
8 bits per byte.
Hey Ryan!! Was looking into Starlink several months ago but wasn't available here yet. Could give us a 30 day update on it, pros, cons? Interested in your camera system too. Would like to get something for my place.
would love to see your security set up I've been wanting one but with all the equipment out there it's hard to decide..
You were talking about the big dishes, I used to install them in the day
Yes please make a video on security cameras!
I'm getting 150MBs down and 40MBs up on my Starlink that I installed about a month ago. I'm actually being held back on some speed because of the wireless connection and I've order the ethernet connector for hardwire connection.
What about the weather? When I had Dishnet, we lost reception during rain storms and snow events. Aggravating when watching TV to lose reception.
I do not have my starlink dish yet. If you wonder why I am anticipating receiving my dish next month, centurylink states I can get ‘up to’ 10Mbps. That means somewhere between 0 and 10 if you interpret it like I do. My download speed is a blistering 0.4Mbps on a good day. Upload speed running about half that. My water faucet drips faster than my internet. But I plan to cut that cord next month.
Sir if you have a old single point plow or one of your local farmers have one you can use it to dig the trench for the cable . Quick to dig with tractor and easy to cover up with the JCB .
When the put a new wire in to my brother's house recently, they just used a spade to cut through the lawn, wobbled it back and forth to open a trench, and shoved the wire down in it, then another guy walked along behind stomping it closed again LOL:) Later! OL J R :)
If, from the top of your grain bin see your sisters you could use something like a Ubiquiti Airfibre link. Pair of dishes. Then after the first purchase you do not pay any rental. Then you use your sisters internet link.
In the beginning of the video Ryan looks like a little kid getting a new Xbox on Christmas
I hope you have already done other speed tests because here in Brazil it hits 500MBPS of speed
Great awesome video Ryan.
Ryan Grissett is correct. There are 8 bits in 1 Byte. 8Mb/s = 1MB/s. Megabit is different than a MegaByte. Megabit is the data speed... MegaByte is the actual data being transferred.
We’ve got it and it works great
Would love to hear a month review. My folks have exede, i been holding out on them getting cell internet as towers have been put in the area. Been waiting for 20 years to get decent broadband.
I've got dsl and would have to pay $10,000 to get a line dug 200 yd to my house to get better internet so I'm definitely going to look into this!
Still waiting here..some people have it here though
Good to have faster internet
I pay around $50 for 200Mbps download (Palm Springs), but I only get that if I'm hardwired with Cat 6 to my modem. Using my computer's wifi, my download is around 110Mbps ( just checked). Meh, good enough for me.
I would recommend securing the receiver so it cannot be stolen. Otherwise I hope that it works well for you!
Google fiber here. Promised 1gb speed which we usually get close to. But it's 70 bucks so I am not bitching.
We've been using our mobile Hotspot from T-Mobile and it was SLOW, like downloading games at .80 kbps/second slow. When I hear starlink was coming i freaked out. Now our signal beats the local fiber, its stupid fast. Definitely recommend if you wanna pay for it