Starlink Broadband FINALLY arrives in the UK! 

Im a starlink user and have been a month, and get 300+ and ping is 32ms, you need to wait a few days to settle down. and catch up with the firmware updates

Light travels slower in medium (optical fiber) than in vacuum. So eventually Starlink will in general have lower latency than fiber. However, Starlink's weakness is bandwidth whereas you can always lay more fiber cables to increase bandwidth.

When there are more satellites in lower orbits, and they have satellite to satellite links, the pings will be on par with, or surpass, those of wired or fibre connections. It's also worth noting that they're not thousands of miles away, they're in low earth orbit

You got to understand how this works, earth up to LEO (low earth orbit) satellite, back to earth relay station to you where ever you're going and back again. Currently there are no earth relay stations in the UK, nearest one is northern France. This all affects the latency. There will probably be multiple relays in the UK eventually and don't forget satellite to satellite communications via laser. Look at the wikipedia page for more info on altitude of the satellites, they are not that far up.

I’ve owned Starlink for a couple of months now and it’s brilliant! Most of my neighbours have 1 download & 0.5 upload via a BT copper line which I ripped out my house the day I moved in. We’ve been waiting for fibre to be installed for over 4 years now. However I went from a 4G directional Ariel where the max download was 70 & 2 upload and now I’m getting similar speeds to in the video. I live super rural so it’s worth every penny. Highly recommend it to anyone who lives rural

this video is really funny considering his WISP plan is $ 89 / m for 60/60 and he's really shitting on 60ms ping

Insane video! Really wanted to check out the starlink thing 🔥🔥

@ 14:04 actually the distance to a starlink sat is about 280miles one way if course, this is why latency is alot less than a current sat services that are 10s of thousands of miles away at a geo orbit. Great video btw 👍

With all do respect, you do not need this. A lot of us are still waiting who actually do.

It IS better than sliced bread. I get 1.5meg where I live. So Starlink is going to bring me into the 21st century.

Starlink satellites orbit at 340 miles. Obviously, you won’t always be directly under the satellite, so the distance your data travels is longer than this As more satellites become active, you’ll be closer to being nearly underneath more of the time, so ping will decrease. I also expect that as Starlink opens more ground gateways, ping will improve.

I love how honest Alex is in the reviews! I do miss the constant uploads!

I know the latency isn't mind blowing but in comparison with old satellite internet that saw a ping of 200+ its definitely groundbreaking. ESPECIALLY as 4g latency is 60+ and that's from a mast a maximum of 10 miles away

Yep it's amazing for people in remote areas with no alternatives, but if you're in a city you're likely better with fibre. I just got FTTP - 300Mbps up AND down for £33/mo and

Great vid. It's interesting to note that SpaceX was trialling a starlink connection on the latest Starship launch (SN15), downlinks to Tesla's may well be possible in the future

Alex starling is a blessing for people in the middle of nowhere who have had old school satellite internet. I agree, For city and suburban people it doesn’t make sense.

Hi Alex, love your vids, however i think you slightly missed the mark with this one. As far as i know the aim to to give reasonable speed, and reasonable ping across the globe. If you look at how much say the USA pays for its satellite internet, and compare the speeds and pricing, then starlink stacks up very well. Same goes for pretty much any country / location that doesn't have great infrastructure. It will one day transform the lives of people who live in remote villages where just 1 link, spread across the village will potentially bring "The Web" direct to them. I doubt it will ever compete with hard wired cabinet to house fibre, but pretty sure its not supposed to....

Starlink is not meant to compete with cable internet. Its meant for people in remote areas that cant get cable. Why is that so hard to understand lol

The important thing about starlink is its LONG DISTANCE latency. Ofcourse your fiber optic connection will be faster if you're pinging a server 1000km away, but if you try to ping somewhere across the planet your ping will go to 500 With starlink you will maintain under 100 ping across the planet.

You're lucky, bro My internet speed is 6Mb😂😂 And I am connected to the 4G network

What you said at 14:02 is incorrect. Starlink satellites are able to offer their advantage because of their extremely low orbit. They orbit at 550 km (340 miles) to be able to offer their high speeds and low latency compared to companies like HughesNet which orbit at ~39,000 km (24,000 miles). The disadvantage to this is that a lot more satellites are needed to cover the Earth's surface (much more expensive) while HughesNet only needs a single satellite. The ping will be fixed next year when SpaceX begins to launch their V2 satellites which will be equipped with light beam communicators. Because of how particles move in space, it will be even quicker than fiber optic cables on the ground. They just launched 10 test satellites in a polar orbit a couple months ago and the goal is to get the ping to ~10-15 ms with download speeds around 1 Gb/s.

Starlink is eventually supposed to be able to be used while moving. This is because it is supposed to be supported on planes.

I think Alex is going to set up some sort of bonding with Starlink and his existing network. Probably to relieve a node and create redundancy.

Him: Soo here’s the Rooooter ! 😂

Imagine Starlink broadband works in a moving vehicle near the future.

14:04 Starlink orbit height is 341 miles.

Great video. Like you said this is in beta. Space X has 3 more launches of Starlink to have 1500 satellites. There goal is 12,000 and Space X has requested permission for an additional 30,000. I think this has potential to be better than anything we have currently. Space X announced that a version for moving vehicles ( boats, planes, RV's, ect.) will be released soon.

The music sounds a lot brazilian like 🔥

Me that lives in morocco and almost always play on 60 ping be like: 👁️💧👄💧👁️

Yes Alex! Please do more videos on testing Starlink. I’m doing my uni dissertation on orbit satellites vs fixed line broadband, so would be a great help for research purposes! 😁👍🏼

I think, fiber optic cables are the best for transmitting data.

First off, fantastic video! I would be have really impressed with Starlink if it were not for the 5G speeds I get on my phone now (ave. 250 Mb/s, ping: 30ms) - also, I’m not convinced the number of additional satellites he’s going to throw into the upper atmosphere to make this reliable is such a great thing.

Me chilli’n at home with 500up 500down and 1 ms ping. UK fiber internet is wack if you compare it to Norway, here 100 mbps up and down is the lowest😂😂

61ms is good for satellite internet granted using LEO. I get a latency of 600ms for Marine VSAT for a $8000 package.

In the last couple of weeks he launched another 120 Starlink satellites... They will take a few weeks for their ion thrusters to move them into their proper orbits, and they start functioning properly. That will make something like 1550 working Starlink satellites out of a planed 30,000(!!!)... Regular satellite internet uses satellites in a ~22,200 mile orbit and so have a horrible latency. Starlink has much lower latency because they are MUCH lower, which means they move in the sky... The motor is not to track the satellites but for initial aiming... There is a phases array antenna inside of the case that actually tracks the satellites. The orbits that are currently planed are: First shell: 1,440 in a 550 km (340 mi) altitude shell at 53.0° inclination Second shell: 1,440 in a 540 km (340 mi) shell at 53.2° inclination Third shell: 720 in a 570 km (350 mi) shell at 70° inclination Fourth shell: 336 in a 560 km (350 mi) shell at 97.6° Fifth shell: 172 satellites in a 560 km (350 mi) shell at 97.6° This will give almost complete global coverage. Where there are no ground stations within range, the satellites will relay the signal to another that is in range with a laser system. That means that the latency will increase when you are in the middle of nowhere(as in hundreds of miles from the nearest ground station), but this will not effect most users.

Starlink will only get better....only around 1500 are in orbit out of a planned 12,000 so far. I think using it while on the move will be a reality.

Actually the lag Will improve. Once the laser links between satellites is up and working, UK should see shorter lag time. That said it isn't meant to compete with cable in large towns and cities which are already well served by cable. Its for small towns in the sticks and mountains in the Himalayas, ships at sea, aircraft. In a few years once their production costs on the dish will come down quite a bit and the laser interconnects eliminate much of the hand-off costs to other providers, should make it cheaper in addition to the lower latency.

For Moving you need a different Dish. These cost a little more then the 400 Pounds you paid for the Basic Version

MARZBAR KONSTANTIN SAID IN HIS LATEST VIDEO THAT HE WOULDNT MIND YOU DOING HIS GAMING SETUP OR SOMETHING MAYBE YOU COULD TURN THIS INTO A VIDEO? Just thought i would let you know mate

Its gonna be 20ms in the end of the summer

The satellite connection is NOT MEANT to replace fiber, you can't do comparisons between these two. It is meant to give some decent connectivity in the zones not reached by hardware infrastructures, where WAN, MAN and LANs are not available.

0:04 "VODEO"

Starlink is not ment for people living in town. its made for people living in areas where internet connection ist really limited and or not available. RN we have only a small net of starlink satellites which is increasing rapidly. With more sattelites there will be way greater latency. The satelites will communicate via lasers but like i said there a way too less in orbit rn.

You say that moving cars will never have this and you right using that thing. But if you have a satalite dish as a flat bed pointing in multiple directions, connecting to miltiple satalites at once then it becomes alot more likely

This is really Interesting in many areas of the UK the max speed you can get on an openreach line is about 60Mbps down on gfast obviously faster although gfast is crap if you're out of range which a lot of people will fall into and I would say is more of a tick box exercise by openreach where I live there isn't doxics 3 so I can only get fttc connection

Maybe its worht it in a rural area... but not in if you live in a urban and populated city! I got 500mb in and out which is awesome, for 30 Euro per months i believe

The one thing I don't miss about the UK is the internet. Gigabit is so normal in other countries, cheap too..

150-200 mbs is insanely fast for normal internet?

That’s amazing dude, loved the video 🚀

This was surprisingly informative, thanks for sharing your experience with this

this vodio was uploaded via star link😭 ily alex

Great man! 😂 enjoyed that. Like you driving with it. Today, I did something crazy with my starlink router...... 😬

I'm no expert but I think starlink is more useful if you live somewhere without access to Internet but isn't a good replacement for normal Internet

Latency WILL improve as well. The physics limit is less than 10ms. They have room to improve. And Elon had said so

This competes with your broadband business. Is that why you uploaded?? To encourage your customers to stick with you?

Starlink will eat your business. Best of luck!

For what it is I would say that it’s not too expensive

and to think its only in beta, many more satellites to go up and fine tuning, the service should scare the competition in rural areas.

While I'm out here struggling to hit 3mbs 😂

pre ordered this mid march and am still awaiting availability in my area

Great Video! I think Starlink is the best way for people, who has no connection in their area. If you have a good connection (25-250 or more) you don’t need it. While I was in England for a year to learn English, we had in the middle of nowhere a 1GBit/s Connection. But if you can’t have a good connection, try it with mobile cover and than you can give starlink a try. To be honest, it is really expensive, but it’s because all that satellite 🛰️ stuff.

can you bypass the router and plug the dish straight into your computer?

Not all humans play games but we all use You Tube or study online. At least we can watch football match and Liverpool wins by Mo Salah. Well done my friend and good luck.

Hi Alex, Some toughts about your video. Starlink is still not working properly in UK/EU, as they as expanding the ground stations that feed the ground signal to the satellite constelation. Also, they were saying that moving vehicles are still in testing. As they expand the satellite constellation and ground stations, ping and velocity will be even better.. (US is getting 300mps and 20/30 ping with an update). Also, Geofencing is improving every update. Check Starlink's Reddit for more things! Hope it helps! Regards from Portugal

A good point about the actual possible user cases for those living in non-urban settings. Most in the cities get higher speeds anyway with actual physical fibre cables (Hyperoptic) also my 5G get up to about 500Mbps.

I think the pings will get better. This is when the earth looks like Jupiter with a ring of Starlink satellites....lol!

It is not 1000's of miles. Starlink's many small satellites orbit at about 340 miles above the Earth, while the satellites for HughesNet and Exede are up at 22,000 miles. So it takes much longer for a signal to get up to and back down from the older-model satellites.

LOL Starlink is not for people with access to fiber cable in middle of the city in first world country, go to some forgotten village in middle of nowhere and see how internet is there and compare it to Starlin.

His passwords are like I pass tests at uni. Nice and secure with the absolute minimum requirement.

I am on Sky Broadband and I'm crying with 0.2MB per second

Bravo Starlink !

I'd assume that the time it dropped out is where the starlink satellites had stopped passing over for a short period of time?

So what happens when it's a storm and there's a gale blowing over the dish on your roof... better bolt that thing down!

Made my day a new Marzbar vlog today’s gonna be a good day!

You didn't need it, you shouldn't have ordered it!

I live in a rural area running off copper cables and get around 1mb/s down and 0.4mb/s up On good days my ping can sit at 20-40 but can easily for several hours spike to 300+ I play mostly games on it and it's very Touch and go, I've heavily considered starlink but I'm not sure if it's worth it. This video both makes me feel like it would improve as I wouldn't get these massive spikes that can last hours but it would still have a roughly 50% increase in latency. Would anyone happen to know what they would do in my situation if they could afford starlink would they get it?

Alex it is meant to be getting unlocked soon for use anywhere and even on the move

5:08 yes please I want to learn more about internet

in italy if you have fiber you can go up to 2.5gbs (25€/mo)

I have no reason to be learning all about this, or really watching Alex at all. I have no inclination to do or use any of the things that he talks about and purchases. But with that being said, I just really enjoy how he "teaches" me all about these topics. SO.....YES, do a SkillShare. You will kill it. In a good and very positive way.

Do not be put off by this first impression. Like he said its in Beta. Check out other reviews dedicated to testing this from day one. UK average DL speed seems to be around 280 and gets better with each update.......And expensive if other options are available. I have EE 5G unlimited Data plan for £35pm and average DL of 400Mbs. I think Starlink would be a last resort for those that really needed this speed. Still reckon 5G will become the norm in the UK over the coming years for a fraction of the cost...............

Root her? I hardly know her!

Van conversions with star link will be mint

Try Fibre next. :P I live on isle of Wight, and we had "Wight fibre" installed, and its 900mb download 900mb upload, its WAS phenomenal. Over the years it's dropped significantly but, I still am running on 400mbps up and 400 down.

Great vid. I had less than 8mbs down last week. Fibre has fixed it lol

They have one mounted on a Starship so I wonder how they're going to get it to work. 14:03 and also the sats are 340+ miles up but I get what you're saying

I get like 900+ down and 500+ up with 2ms on Airtel fiber. But I will get starlink for my factory which doesn't have a fiber line nearby.

I have had mine for a few months its decent loads of bugs but it will get better

Great video. What was the power strip that you bought for your car called?

Could you add this feed as a secondary WAN in your UDM Pro to provide a backup to your main ISP feed, possibly bonded to add its speed to what you already have?

Had tried to fix worldspace satellite radio on my car 15 years back but no luck . Signal gets disconnected

@marzbarvlog, What service do you use to remotely access your office Mac from home?

Good advice at the start about whether you actually need it or not. I’m getting good service from my current isp, so couldn’t justify the extra cost of Starlink over what I’m paying already as the benefits don’t outweigh the extra £££. Yet anyway.

They could make a version for cars etc as buses already have satellite internet and airplanes too

Starship SN 15 has starlink en it's works spacex is working on it for moving cars boots en other stof

Nice test on the moving van ☺️ I've seen a review by a canadian living in the middle of nowhere and it was so much better than his lte antenna. Amazing tech.

The ping and the outages will go down as the mount of satellites are increasing above the UK. The speeds will go up as well. expept around 500mbps speeds at the end of the year. I would happily use this instead of cable or fibre as it would be mobile within an 20 miles radius that an cell seems to be covering.

Do you think the star link will get cheaper as it gets more advanced?

Great for people who travel or vlog on the go. Though that upload speed could still be better, great download but the upload is sort of average :L Definitely a step in the right direction :O

Starlink is around 250 miles above the earth not thousands of miles