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SpaceX sorry, FedEx just dropped the starlink in front 

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of my house. It's big. It's 30 freaking pounds. But let's 

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take a look inside and see what it's like using Starling 

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and how fast it really is. [ MUSIC ] 

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So a few weeks ago, SpaceX sent me a special email 

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that a spot opened up for me to join the Starlink beta 

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program. I mean, if Papa Elon is asking you to join his 

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pet project, of course, it's a yes. But what the hell 

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Starlink, pretty much is the internet from the sky. And 

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you might know it as, satellite internet. [ MUSIC ] 

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The $ 499 Starlink kit, comes with an antennae dish, 

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WiFi router, power supply, cables, and a mounting 

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tripod. And for $ 99 a month You can expect to see 

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data speeds anywhere between 50 to 150 megabits a 

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second at low latency. And the kicker, no data 

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caps. [ UNKNOWN ] really isn't meant for people like 

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me who are out in suburb or city places, just cuz we're 

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dealing with a lot of other external factors that may 

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disrupt the service such as network congestion 

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[ MUSIC ] Obstructions, you name it, but really for those 

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in remote areas that have lack of ISP choices, so keep 

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that in mind. 

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[ MUSIC ] Since 2018, SpaceX has launched these tiny 

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satellites to provide high speed internet to anyone in 

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the world. But unlike regular satellite internet. Starlink 

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is in low orbit and that provides faster download 

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speeds and low latency. And at the time of this 

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recording space X has launched about 1, 200 of these 

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out of 12, 000. So there's still more work to do. 

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If you want an in depth look of Starling, make sure to 

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check out Jesse's video, available on the description 

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below. All right. Now that you know what it does, let's 

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take this outside and, go for a test drive. [ MUSIC ] 

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On the quick start guide, in three easy steps, I should 

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be connected to the internet. Sounds pretty simple 

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enough. But before I do any of that I need to download 

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the app first. [ MUSIC ] In the starlink App, 

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there is an AR experience that will help guide you 

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where to align your dish. To the sky. As you can see, 

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this clear area is the path of the satellites. And 

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in my case, my dish is a little too low. I'm gonna bring 

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it up higher. Alright, I use moving boxes to bring up 

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the dish a little higher and above the fence line. But 

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there are trees in delay. So we'll see if that's going to 

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be any problems when we try to connect. Last up is 

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pretty much plugging everything in. Everything is color 

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coded, so it's pretty easy. As it powers up. It's gonna 

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take about 15 to 30 minutes for the antenna dish to 

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start looking for the starlink satellites overhead. During 

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this time the app is gonna ask you to rename your wi fi 

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and password so now they give it a fancy new name 

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and a difficult password so i've given about 30 

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minutes for the antenna dish to start looking for 

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satellites. In the app, you can see a live look of your 

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network's health. And here you can see the pink 

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success was pretty much shows you if you're connected 

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to the Internet or not the latency of that connection 

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download and upload usage. The SNR is the strength 

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of your starlings connection to the satellites. I'm gonna 

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go back up to the ping success right now during the 

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last 39 minutes, my internet has been going up and 

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down 4 minutes of those downtime was caused by 

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obstructions and 8 minutes was caused by 

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beta downtime. And Starling does warn you that you're 

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expected to see some downtime because this is still in 

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beta and as they are improving and maturing. 

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Launching more satellites, that beta downtime should 

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be coming down in the later weeks and months to 

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come. I have about 100 % connection. And I'm gonna 

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go ahead and run some speed test. So 

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here we go, connected to the starlink and 

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I'm getting about 27 

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Whoa. [ BLANK_AUDIO ] 27 millisecond latency at 

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about 120 megabits a second right now with 

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the current connection. That's pretty good right now. 

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My upload is hovering at about 20 megabits a second. 

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[ BLANK_AUDIO ] Living 

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up to his promise right now, that's pretty good but 

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because i live in inside an apartment and my patio has 

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his fence and the trees, the obstructions might be an 

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issue so I'm gonna take starling out to my car out in the 

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parking lot to make sure that the dish is looking 

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nothing but the sky. To see if my connection is better 

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out there. My 

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friends from Oculus kind enough to send me their 

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power paying for me to power up the entire system. 

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Now that is assault and I gave about an hour for 

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starling to connect and calibrate itself. Let's go ahead 

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and see what my connection is like. And as you saw 

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when I installed it I use the ar app to make sure there 

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were no obstructions so let's go ahead and see what 

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my connection is like on the app. According to the stats 

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The connection has been dipping out every 510 

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minutes so that's not great it still looks like there are 

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some issues but i'm gonna go ahead and run some 

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speed tests to see what my speeds are like. So 

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i am getting a latency of 39 milliseconds at a download 

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speed of 80 megabits a second. With 

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an upload speed about 13 so it's great this 

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is decent i think the speeds are fine so i'm gonna go 

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ahead and do some streaming on YouTube metal 

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when claire is inside a tsunami ball [ MUSIC ] Only so 

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far streaming looks good i think that's great here's 

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some buffering might have lost connection at this point 

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[ MUSIC ] 

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Check my starlink up and yes i did 

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lose it but it's color coding it that i'm losing connection 

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because of obstruction so i don't know what that really 

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means You saw when I was installing it there was no 

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trees though I don't know why it's keep losing internet. 

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But it looks like I'm back online I'm gonna try to log into 

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my starling account to see if they have any messages 

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or any outages. It looks like I have a message on my 

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account says your areas currently experiencing 

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intermittent service Our team is investigating. So 

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it looks like I am going through an outage and I don't 

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know how long this message has been on my account, 

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nor do I know when they'll have this fixed so I'll reach 

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out to Starlink to see if they have an ETA. [ SOUND ] 

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Spent about 48 hours since the test in my car and I 

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reached out to support service to see if the hours 

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would clear anytime soon. But I haven't heard back 

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from them just yet. So I went ahead and checked 

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starlink subreddit page to see if this is affecting more 

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users than just myself and found that more users were 

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going through the same intermittent service outage. 

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When they did have a good connection, I was able to 

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run multiple speed tests. I was averaging a download 

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speed about 78 megabits a second at a latency 

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around 36 milliseconds, meaning I was able to run 

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some gains. So I download a call of duty on my phone 

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and it was performing well for a few minutes until I lost 

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connection. Overall though stalling lives up to his 

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expectation you're getting the download speeds and 

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latency that was promised plus ilan tweeted in 

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february that they plan on doubling the speed By end 

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of 2021. For right now because of network is going 

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through some service outage. Going to be checking my 

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account daily until the outage gets resolved. 

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Last night i checked my throttling account and it looks 

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like that intermittent service outage has been resolved 

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Which screen? Took about four days for them to 

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resolve this for me in my case, but I'm glad it's done. 

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Now I'm gonna take starlink with me to Mount Diablo 

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for my final beta test. 

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[ MUSIC ] 

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Starlink is all set up on top of my roof and it's been 

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about 25 minutes for it to calibrate and to connect to 

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the satellites overhead let's take a look with my 

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connections are light and it says i'm online and my 

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connections are good. And according to the stats, my 

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connection has been connected for a 100 percent. 

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Okay. I'm gonna run a speed test to see how fast the 

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connection is. There we go. Okay. 

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Latency off 30 mil, my gosh latency, 

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a 30 milliseconds. Downhill speed about 138 

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megabits a second. And the upload 

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speed about 14 this is this is a great start I'm getting 

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zero dropouts might as well try to stream Netflix right 

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now let's see if we can stream in 4k. [ MUSIC ] Can we 

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go I got Netflix all ready to go. And I'm gonna run 

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always be my maybe. [ MUSIC ] 

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And this is awesome and I'm connected to starlink 

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right now. [ MUSIC ] That's crazy. I am streaming 

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Netflix on top of the mountains. Alright, this time, I'm 

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going to try to call my friend Mitch on the starlink 

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network using FaceTime. So right now I am in airplane 

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mode and just connected to the Wi Fi. Mitch. Hey, john, 

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can you see me hear me Hey, I can't see you and hear 

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you. It looks like you're outside. I 

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am. I am on top of Mount Diablo as we speak and 

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I am walking around. You can see Starling on top of my 

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car. Say, you look clear, no buffering and you sound 

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really good too. Nice. That's all I needed to know! Now 

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all I need is for you to just keep that on top of your car 

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forever and drive around. [ LAUGH ]. You 

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know what? Just expect I don't expect to be in the 

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office anytime soon at this point [ LAUGH ] 

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For my final test I'm gonna attempt to play cisco on the 

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starlink network on my macbook I know don't just I can 

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bring up pc desktop so there we go [ BLANK_AUDIO ] 

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[ NOISE ] 

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So far i'm able to game on the family network this is 

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fantastic [ MUSIC ] Well 

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the third time is to turn waiting for any outages to clear 

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and bringing up Starling to the mountains where 

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there's little to no obstructions. Also right call I was 

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able to stream games. FaceTime, and experience 

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almost no dropouts right now. starlink is still in beta, 

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but they are opening it up to more users every day. 

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But let me know what you think. Do you plan on getting 

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Starling and if you're able to travel with it like I did, is 

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that a game changer. Let me all hear your thoughts 

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and i'll catch you next time. [ MUSIC ]