hey everybody eric here from nomadic fanatic i hope you guys are doing well
this is kind of an awkward video for for me to make considering just 30 days ago i posted a video
why starlink is not for me and yet what is this in my hand right here i can explain i swear
t minus 10 9 eight seven six five four three two one ignition
and lift off of starling 4-34 go falcon 9.
yeah guys so in that video last month in the pacific northwest with the tall trees
i had been researching starlink for a very long time and i love my nomad internet there's a
link below in the video description as always starlink is not paying me for this i paid for
all this equipment out of my own fund here and that is because ever since i got out
into arizona where the trees are not very tall and there is lots of usually there's sunshine
but more importantly a clear shot of the northern sky today is just a little muggy and cloudy with
some thunderstorms and lightning off in the distance however after being here for a little
bit with frank and tammy having starlink kevin using starlink and looking at my a t and verizon
we're too far away from the towers here at kevin's base camp we're about 20 miles from the nearest
cell tower and it's just not working i'm getting speeds under 4 megabits per second download and
0.02 upload it would take 22 years to upload a video here with nomad internet so i need a
backup so i will say that starlink is my my backup on the road and i'll show you how i'm
going to hook it up first we've got to unbox it and figure out how it all works yeah so in case
you are not familiar with starlink you can watch my other video i will link it at the end also but
uh the starlink works with satellites up in the sky they'll be the northern sky for us here but
essentially we're going to be connecting to a bunch of satellites for some high speed internet
this kit cost currently right now 600 bucks and for an rv version i got the rb version it's going
to be 135 dollars a month for unlimited internet so here's what we got we've got a very good metal
stand cool using frank's trailer right now then some junk there and then we've got the dish itself
nice nice so pretty simple the stand the dish 75 feet of wire there's the
indoor router with a power cord for regular 110 connection and then a little diagram
of how to put this thing together i'm going to be keeping this metal portable stand because
because it's portable there are going to be times where i'm going to want starlink
but mounting something to the roof is going to you know limit my ability to get starlink
so for today's demonstration i'm going to show you how i am going to hook this dish
up semi-permanently on the roof if we go to the back of my rv here you may remember i've got the
flag buddy kit this holds my telescoping flagpole here at the bob the base and then it's got another
hookup up there well it turns out that flag buddy got smart and they decided that it'd be a good
idea to cater to people who want to have starlink on the back of their ladder so they sell these two
four foot sections of aluminum pipe that cannot turn once once they're locked in more importantly
they've created a 3d printed starlink aftermarket adapter here for the top which also locks in it's
important to lock it in because you don't want the dish to rotate so this i will show you how easily
this fits up here you can kind of see the angle of that up there so i just put this at an angle
and then slide it up the base clicks right into there like that tighten these up
and then this will not move or vibrate and the disc goes on the top so let me hook that all up
and then we'll go from there all right got the dish up there and locked into place next step
for the purposes of this video i'm going to plug in my router right here
because i have power here so you plug in the two cords and the ac also it says uh to
have the app ready and downloaded plug that guy in right there and then go grab my app
um i guess it's stinky it's the only thing new here stinky okay i'm gonna click on stinky
we're gonna connect to that real quick here all right now we enter in a wi-fi name nomadic
fanatic star link and a password go ahead and refresh the wi-fi is here
and there it is nomatic fanatic starling click on that guy let me enter my password it says we're
connected now now we'll open the starlink app that i downloaded previous yes you can connect
we are going to start the setup process here and we're going to allow and then uh oh felix is going
felix is heading back to to uh phoenix area look at that tracker it's a nice looking tracker
hopefully we'll see him later this weekend oh look at that it it's uh it's so now we're booting
right now where it's gonna scan the sky for the first time it says it could take up to 15 minutes
the first time and then it'll fold back down a different way when it's ready we'll give it some
time here well i looked away for a couple minutes and now it says online and so i guess that's its
final resting point for here i believe we are actually connected all right well we're going
to do our first test here look right underneath campervan kevin starling you got nomadic fanatic
starling so let's go ahead and connect to this for the first time all right got my password entered
just to verify it's blue we are on my star link now we'll do another speed test here and we'll
see if it can get hang on there it is spacex starlink awesome oh this is exciting say go check
one more time make sure yep still me and here we go guys the first official test for starlink
um four
four five maybe what the uh officially we'll call it 7.65 download
uh and then it's like about five or less four for upload it keeps going down what the heck
that is seven download and four upload for for spacex starlink i i'm a little confused because
that clearly is not 900 megabits per second or even 500. seven it's about the same as your
phone as your cell phone does it get better i don't know um it says i have great coverage
it would be much much worse if i were a play in a place where i had some obstructions or trees or
buildings or it was a high use area or something like that but i'm out here in the desert where
starling should be at is its prime and do you think its prime is seven down and four up is that
worth 135 dollars a month and six hundred dollars in equipment i don't know i don't have pretty much
any verizon or at t out here so this is all you can really get um i'm just not too impressed with
that and i don't really know what else to say let me give it five minutes and see if it gets
better in about 10 minutes so uh we're gonna try this one more time i still can't get the
app to work it's it has its own speed test and it just keeps saying temporarily unavailable
now we're getting two download one download one megabit not not a thousand one officially 2.76
on our second try upload's going a little higher six or seven now five um wow boop
i booped you sometimes you just have to boop the boy i had to boop you what are you doing
then clearly i'm trying to sleep clearly man jeez can't get any peace and quiet around here
i think once we get all set up on the property we need to build a outdoor catio and a run so you
guys can actually run and do sprints through an outdoor safe catio with chicken wire where the key
where the birdies can't get you okay i know you want to get the birdies but i think the
birdies will get you i think they will i think you better be careful we all gotta be careful
okay where's your sister can i have a foot can i have a foot can i have a paw can i have a foot
i can't have a foot okay go back to sleep terra bear look it's your taco fish it's your taco fish
it's your favorite you don't even like sharing that one with opie that's like her favorite toy
how you doing girl yeah do you like the puppies here
opie gets along with uh tucker and and baby maymay and martini and wilson and we got harley we got a
lot of puppies here right now uh foxy lady a lot of puppies to play with and the kitties are doing
pretty good tara's tara doesn't really want to play with any of the puppies opie's very curious
tara's just kind of her own little self and that's okay she's a good girl yeah
excited about outdoor desert life farm life at some point okay what about chickens
dad wants to get some egg laying hens and maybe a rooster to be our friend
and then you can be you can be the boss of the chickens we'll have to do that huh yeah okay
all right well i've tried to a few times here throughout the day been talking with kevin and
frank and uh they said it gets better you can see sometimes 40 out here 40 down after 10 pm um
but i don't get the fascination when i don't see the results that i'm expecting
maybe i just really thought that i was gonna see higher speeds and it's just
there's too many people on starlink now because they've made it available to everybody in an rv
and and um anyway i have 30 days to return it and i will get a refund for the equipment i still owe
the the first month's uh fee and everything but um we're going to be getting on the road here pretty
soon doing some traveling a little update on the property we are still in the closing phase it's
a little bit difficult i don't have a date yet i think tomorrow i will know what our end date is
that's when i need to either do a wire transfer or get a cashier's check for the balance of that so
that i can pay for it and officially get the deed to the property which means i can start moving in
however i have decided that i'm not going to be staying here for the first winter here there
may be some other youtubers you follow that are going to try that i myself i want to spend a good
season out on my property getting things ready and getting comfortable out there so although i
may still do a couple things before i leave it's getting colder and i need to take care
of some other business in other parts of the country so we'll be we'll be hitting the road
here pretty soon uh anyway let me know in the comments below uh how starlink is working for you
um if it was really really bad the first day you got it and then it got better or uh if i'm
just the only one with with uh experience let me know in the comments below a little update
here uh it's the next day uh last night starlink actually did not improve at 10 pm like some had
said mine actually went under one megabit per second download and upload i think was at like
three but i mean i couldn't even stream or open up youtube or anything last night however i woke
up this morning and after less than 24 hours now i'm getting 77 download and 20 up which honestly
is all i'm really asking for it's just right now it's fluctuating a lot i've had some friends
telling me that it might take a full week until my system is really ready and configured and got all
the right firmware and everything so believe me as i travel on the road this next week we're going to
be testing this out everywhere we go every single day and night because uh i really want to see what
it's capable of in the meantime like i said i'm going to be uh packing up here for a little bit
and going on a little trip waiting for my property to close this is an interesting view of kevin's
property here there's even a surprise body of water out there it's gorgeous right okay all
right so y'all stay tuned uh tara and opie i will see you in the next one in a few days bye guys
you