Speaker 1: Starlink failed me when I was in the field, but
Speaker 1: maybe not for the reason that you're thinking. There was
Speaker 1: a global outage when I was in the field when
Speaker 1: I was on my camping trip, but it failed me
Speaker 1: for another reason. Also, let's check it out. A group
Speaker 1: of us just returned from Colorado. We spent the last
Speaker 1: five nights camping outside of Uhray, Colorado in Ridgeway State Parks,
Speaker 1: actually closer to Ridgeway, Colorado, which is a smaller town
Speaker 1: than u Ray, but Ray, Ridgeway, and Montrose all kind
Speaker 1: of right there together. We spent the last week camping there.
Speaker 1: The first night we were there was a Sunday night,
Speaker 1: and I actually live stream from my phone with AT
Speaker 1: and T that night. Had a really good connection, really
Speaker 1: good signal, really good live stream. I went live for
Speaker 1: about an hour, had no problems at all, but shortly
Speaker 1: after that it became an issue. Somebody asked if I
Speaker 1: was using starlink. No, I'm actually on AT and T.
Speaker 1: I did a speed test and I got a out
Speaker 1: thirteen to fifteen megs down, but I got forty megs up,
Speaker 1: so that worked out great. We were on AT and T,
Speaker 1: robbers on rob was on Verizon that was Sunday night.
Speaker 1: When that happened the next day, Monday, it still worked
Speaker 1: pretty good. By the time Tuesday got here, it had
Speaker 1: slowed down, and Wednesday and Thursday were almost unusable. We
Speaker 1: had all started recording videos, not live streaming, but recording
Speaker 1: videos and for to post for later edited use on
Speaker 1: all of our channels. And some of it might have
Speaker 1: been that we were uploading a lot of stuff. I
Speaker 1: don't know, but it seemed to be consistent everywhere, not
Speaker 1: just in the park, but when we'd go out on
Speaker 1: a peak, we would drive through a valley, drive through
Speaker 1: between mountains, there'd be no signal, and when we got
Speaker 1: up on a peak there would be signal. It would
Speaker 1: work for a while until we left, and then we
Speaker 1: would go back down the valley, go back to campsite,
Speaker 1: and even just watching when even when no one was
Speaker 1: watching it all, no one was uploading it all. I
Speaker 1: should say, the speeds never got back to where they
Speaker 1: were the first two days we were there. So Thursday
Speaker 1: was our last full day there. Friday morning we got up,
Speaker 1: packed up and left, and Thursday I pulled out my starlink.
Speaker 1: Actually the day before that, I was using Hobby's Starlink
Speaker 1: and Starlink worked great right up until they had a
Speaker 1: global network outage that lasted like two to four hours
Speaker 1: something like that. So I decided to make this video
Speaker 1: based mostly on this latest comment. This is not the
Speaker 1: first comment I've ever received like this, Okay, I talked
Speaker 1: about Sterlink the last time I was on Randy not
Speaker 1: A Rubacon's channel. I've done interviews with Jay Christina as well.
Speaker 1: He's been on my channel. I've been on his. So
Speaker 1: this guy on my on my best four HT video says,
Speaker 1: when Sterlink supports mobile phones, why are we still using him?
Speaker 1: And I replied and I said, Sterlink had a worldwide
Speaker 1: outage about three days ago. Do you still have questions
Speaker 1: besides the global network outage? When I booted up that
Speaker 1: Starlink dish on Thursday morning, my own Starlink dish on
Speaker 1: Thursday morning, after using hobbies the day before, it never
Speaker 1: would serve up an SSID for Wi Fi. I never
Speaker 1: could connect to it via Wi Fi. I never could
Speaker 1: get it to show up inside of the Starlink app
Speaker 1: on my phone. I rebooted the dish two or three times.
Speaker 1: I let it run for thirty minutes the last time
Speaker 1: and it never served up an SSID, So from my perspective,
Speaker 1: it had hardware failure. It failed because I couldn't connect
Speaker 1: to it and use the Internet. And then if we
Speaker 1: go over here, we're gonna see what Jay Christina has
Speaker 1: to say about it.
Speaker 2: I covered a similar type of situation. I think it
Speaker 2: was a year or two back, where this is some
Speaker 2: administrators or someone internal to SpaceX forgot to pay the
Speaker 2: bill for their cert for their secure.
Speaker 1: A similar city. He's talking about a similar situation, a
Speaker 1: similar global outage that happened with Starlink in the.
Speaker 2: Past certificate which allows them to communicate securely between each other,
Speaker 2: and once that certificate died, well, access died over.
Speaker 1: On routers dot Com is talking about this outage, which
Speaker 1: happened on July twenty fourth. SpaceX's Starlink satellite network was
Speaker 1: back up and running on Friday as engineers hunted for
Speaker 1: a root cause of its biggest international outage the night before,
Speaker 1: a rare disruption for the powerful Internet system set off
Speaker 1: by an internal software failure. Users in the US and
Speaker 1: Europe began experiencing outage around three pm Eastern Time Thursday.
Speaker 1: According to down Detector, a crowdsourced funded and it reported
Speaker 1: sixty one thousand users being down. Now what does that mean?
Speaker 1: What does that mean? It means that with Starlink, just
Speaker 1: like a cell phone network, you are reliant and dependent
Speaker 1: on external hardware and external networks being up and running.
Speaker 1: With a radio gmrs, CBE Radio, HAMM radio, once you
Speaker 1: purchase the radio, you've got free access to it from
Speaker 1: now on. Starlink is gonna stop working if you forget
Speaker 1: to pay the bill or if for whatever reason and
Speaker 1: your credit card has declined. If you don't pay the bill,
Speaker 1: you don't have Starlink. Currently at the time of this recording,
Speaker 1: is fifty dollars a month for fifty gigs, or it's
Speaker 1: like one hundred and thirty five or one hundred and
Speaker 1: fifty five a month for unlimited, whatever it is. They've
Speaker 1: changed it. When I signed up, it was like one
Speaker 1: twenty five for unlimited, and they've gone up on the
Speaker 1: price two three times since then. Currently, I have the
Speaker 1: fifty gigabyte plan because I'm only using it periodically right now,
Speaker 1: but you can pause that also if I put it
Speaker 1: on pause and don't want to use it this month
Speaker 1: and I don't have Starlink at all, and I have
Speaker 1: to unpause it. So if you don't pay for Starlink,
Speaker 1: you don't pay the bill. You are without communications. If
Speaker 1: they have a global outage, if they have a regional outage,
Speaker 1: if they have a nationwide outage, something that's completely out
Speaker 1: of your control, out of my control. You don't have communications.
Speaker 1: So what do you do? Well, hopefully you have a
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Speaker 1: the link in the description below. But you are dependent
Speaker 1: on you if you think so so that like this
Speaker 1: guy who wrote this comment a minute ago that I
Speaker 1: read to you, when starlink support supports mobile funds, why
Speaker 1: are we still using Ham? Well, because basically it's free.
Speaker 1: Ham radio is free. Yes, you have to buy the
Speaker 1: Ham radio. We have to buy the starlink too. Guess
Speaker 1: what I've bought three Starlink dishes. Okay, I bought the original,
Speaker 1: I bought the new panel dish, but I never used
Speaker 1: the new panel dish, and then I bought the mini okay,
Speaker 1: And all of those packages were five hundred and ninety
Speaker 1: nine dollars when I bought them. And how long are
Speaker 1: they gonna last? A lot of the people are not
Speaker 1: even using Gen two anymore. Gen two. You can get
Speaker 1: a Gen two dish for like one hundred and fifty
Speaker 1: bucks now, but how long are those gonna last? They
Speaker 1: keep upgrading the network in the in space and upgrading
Speaker 1: the satellites. Okay, so starlink dish that you buy today
Speaker 1: in four, five, six, eight years is going to be
Speaker 1: like a smartphone that you buy today, it's gonna be
Speaker 1: kind of useless. It's my prediction. Anyway, I can take
Speaker 1: a Ham radio that I purchased in nineteen ninety two,
Speaker 1: nineteen ninety seven, or if I had one that was
Speaker 1: actually built in nineteen sixty five, I could take that
Speaker 1: Ham radio and get on the air and communicate with
Speaker 1: it today for no money at all. So Starlink is
Speaker 1: not a replacement for radio. Again, I must reiterate, because
Speaker 1: I know there's a lot of fans. There's a couple
Speaker 1: fanboys that come along every time I make a Starlink video. Well,
Speaker 1: obviously you made a mistake. Obviously this is user error.
Speaker 1: I'm like, a global outage is not user error, Okay.
Speaker 1: Booting up my dish and leaving it sit for thirty
Speaker 1: minutes and it never serving up an SSID is not
Speaker 1: user error. Okay. Because I got Starlink support to confro,
Speaker 1: they're like, oh, yeah, we see what you're saying. They're like,
Speaker 1: we see your dishes offline. Plug it back in. You
Speaker 1: do need a firmware update, which the starlink will update
Speaker 1: itself every time you boot it up and get a
Speaker 1: connection to the sky with it. It'll just do automatic updates.
Speaker 1: But I left it running for thirty minutes, never served
Speaker 1: up an SSID, couldn't connect to it with my phone
Speaker 1: or laptop, couldn't see an SSID when I scan for
Speaker 1: Wi Fi from my phone, my tablet, and my laptop
Speaker 1: three different sources. Was not available, had to contact support,
Speaker 1: did not get it working for a whole twenty four
Speaker 1: hours because we were out that day and I was
Speaker 1: without I was basically without internet, without a way to communicate.
Speaker 1: The day before that was the outage, and then my
Speaker 1: hardware failed. So yeah, your hardware can fail. Sure, I
Speaker 1: can have a ham radio on the field that it
Speaker 1: can fail too. Sure, that's very true. There's always a
Speaker 1: failure point somewhere. That's why I have multiple points of communications.
Speaker 1: Why do we still need to use ham radio if
Speaker 1: mobile phones in Starlink are soon going to cover globally worldwide? Well,
Speaker 1: Number one, I've already answered that it's not Number one.
Speaker 1: Number one, I've already answered that, thank you for watching
Speaker 1: the video. Number two. Number three points, okay, is that
Speaker 1: you got to buy a mobile phone. You gotta make
Speaker 1: sure it doesn't fail. You got to connect to Starlink,
Speaker 1: pay your bill to make sure it doesn't fail, and
Speaker 1: even then it still might have a worldwide outage, which
Speaker 1: is rare. Which is rare. What if you're in the
Speaker 1: canopy cover of a forest or trees. Okay, we camp
Speaker 1: every year at Montasano State Park on the side of
Speaker 1: a mountain in Huntsville, Alabama for a ham radio show
Speaker 1: for Huntsville Hamfest. Hope to see you guys there in
Speaker 1: August of twenty twenty five. There's no starlink service up there, buddy.
Speaker 1: They've got thirty forty foot tall trees that blanket that
Speaker 1: entire state park. It's a beautiful area, absolutely beautiful state park.
Speaker 1: Love the trees, love the shade, great area, No starlink,
Speaker 1: no cell signal because the trees block it all. Well,
Speaker 1: the cell signals because they don't have a good tower
Speaker 1: up there. But there's no starlink because it can't get
Speaker 1: clear line of sight to the sky. And this might
Speaker 1: be true everywhere. We camped in Grand Canyon about three
Speaker 1: years ago. No clear line of sight to the sky,
Speaker 1: no starlink, no working and radio will work everywhere. GMRS
Speaker 1: and CBE radio will work everywhere. And once you have
Speaker 1: the hardware, you don't have to pay for service every
Speaker 1: month that you have to worry about failing because all
Speaker 1: it requires is a battery and atmosphere, and the atmosphere
Speaker 1: is free for everybody. So no, Starlink is not a
Speaker 1: replacement for ham radio. It's not a replacement for any radio,
Speaker 1: but that doesn't mean it's not worth having if you
Speaker 1: want to sign up for starlink. This is not a
Speaker 1: sponsored part of the video, but I'll put my sign
Speaker 1: up link below in the description. If you click on
Speaker 1: my sign up link and sign up for starlink and
Speaker 1: start paying and create a starlink account, you and I
Speaker 1: both get a free month of Starlink. Starlink gives you
Speaker 1: kind of like an affiliate coupon. I don't get any
Speaker 1: money from them, but I will get at one free
Speaker 1: month on my starlink account, and so will you for
Speaker 1: using my link. Blow. So yeah, use starlink. I like Starlink.
Speaker 1: I continue to use it. I've had it for a
Speaker 1: year and a half or so at the time of
Speaker 1: this recording. It's not a replacement for radio. It's just not.
Speaker 1: I challenge you. I challenge you to prove me wrong.
Speaker 1: It's not a replacement for radio because radio works everywhere
Speaker 1: all the time for free. Seventy three guys love to
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