ah look at that where's my satellite
okay may the two never be parted heat advisory today oh what a surprise
been nice is starlink has put some brackets on there to mount this thing with but instead i've
got a trick to show you though if you tap a hole and you want this bolt to come right to the end
so you catch all the threads put a nut on the bolt and then you can drive it in and tighten that nut
down so it takes up the tension so it's just like a little piece of all thread but the nut that way
i catch all the threads but i don't have my bolt protruding so i can put the board back on here so
that's all there is to starlink you got the wi-fi router inside and you got the antenna outside
you're pretty much done look at this lake today we're on break watching the chad eat the menace
six on the upload that's not bad i've seen worse and it really does change a lot i mean it just
goes up and down during the day and it might have to do with my boat drifting around the antenna
being set wrong but it also does adjust itself i've noticed that if i reset it the antenna takes
a little swing around and finds a better satellite orientation but the boat will soon drift too
wow okay truth said here it normally doesn't touch anywhere near that high so the download
is fantastic right now and the upload's not too bad i've seen that everywhere between
you know 0.5 and eight or nine and i went to their website and they now have a marine version out it
comes with the mount on a pole uh it wouldn't be easier for me to mount and i'm not sure what the
differences are but they are updating their stuff all the time and i have the rv version which means
they expect me to move to new areas and i can tell them where i am at i haven't even done that
they still think i'm in tulsa and it's working this great so i'm not even sure i'll bother
okay the marine version check this out they must have learned something about putting
the word marine and the price because it's five thousand dollars a month and ten thousand dollars
for the hardware but you do get 350 megabits per second so it's not for me it's for the yachts
and i pay 135 a month for the starlink with the rv edition on it i think it's 100 a month if
you're not gonna be rv and then i paid not much less than that for the t-mobile now the t-mobile
had some kind of a setup fee it wasn't bad but the starlink equipment is 700
for the purchase of it but still it'll be something that i can take across the world
pretty soon and that's that's just fantastic and yeah i power cycle that now the antenna is facing
a different direction so there you go must be up there and plenty of people have just mounted the
antenna directly to the top of their van or whatever and it seems to work just fine
so maybe this is helping a little bit maybe because the boat moves it's not helping at all
difference between rvs and boats is rvs don't use anchors and the alternative is something
like this little t-mobile hotspot i've got this one and i've got this one too which i use much
more frequently but that's all dependent upon are you anywhere near a cell tower but let's
go ahead and check it we'll flip over to uh the wi-fi through t-mobile run our test again
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goes to probably diesel okay and there's one other thing you ought to know about this starling thing
i have an old amplify system this is a wi-fi mesh and it needs to jack in the starlink
does not come with an ethernet port but you can buy an ethernet adapter for it and that simply
jacks into the cable that's coming down from the antenna to the wi-fi router and so then you can
pull your cat 5 off of that and have ethernet and that's necessary for me especially because this
is a steel boat with an aluminum pilot house and wi-fi doesn't travel very far through this thing
the starlink app comes with a little program that you can use to see how good you're going to get
coverage throughout your boat or house allow me to demonstrate this has to be done after you've set
up your wi-fi router and mine's right behind that panel there so you can see i'm in the green let's
go out on the forward part of the deck and you can see we're already into deep red so it's not even
getting out of the pilot house and if i went down below there i might as well be in outer mongolia
once i get my mesh network set up that'll take care of it now the thing with starlink is they're
going to go through a lot more changes and one of the things right now is they have the ability to
go from me to a satellite back to an earth station but that doesn't get you way out into the ocean
later on they're going to be able to go from me up to a satellite to another satellite to
another satellite and then back down so it'll cover the entire planet i mean it is a fantastic
thing you pay 130 135 dollars a month for it but man compared to what you'd have to pay
just five years back to get anything close to it it's phenomenal so fantastic service
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