Introduction to Internet Challenges

hey there folks this is josh stoney ridge farmer welcome back to another beautiful sunny day here in the foothills of the blue ridge mountains on the stoney ridge farm this is a 150 acre first generation cattle farm operation that i've started up and i've started a youtube channel along with it with a youtube channel comes the need for internet and we've had really really slow internet so this is going to serve as about a three to four week review after using starlink internet and starlink internet is that elon musk satellite internet that's out there for you guys it's in the beta testing phase so it's becoming more and more available to everyone all over the country today we're going to give you a brief overview and i'll tell you how satisfied with it if i am satisfied or if i'm not satisfied it's going to be pretty cool and we'll talk to you a little bit about what you need to do in order to try and get starlink at your place all right [Music] all right guys i hope you enjoyed the little intro here we're on 150 acre first generation cattle farm chicken farm gonna be pig farms selling veggies all that stuff and we live in the rural foothills of the blue ridge mountains in north carolina i had only two options for internet i had satellite internet and centurylink internet now centurylink internet was super super slow my download speeds were about 3.6 megabytes per second i believe it's bytes not bits correct me if i'm wrong and my upload speeds were like .08 which is completely ridiculous totally slow and i produce social media content so if you're not following the youtube channel jump in follow the channel i'd love to have you back here what we're doing is trying to find an internet solution not like we're just going to say the names like hughes net with data caps with it just gets outrageously expensive so if we were going to do hughes net and i was uploading the quantity of content that i upload to youtube and facebook and all the various other social media outlets i'm a unique rural customer in other words i need faster internet so with 3.6 megabytes per second my tv would buffer if i was watching something a youtube video or if i was watching something on amazon prime or netflix or whatever i no longer have the buffering set up so what we've got is a starlink internet setup i'll post a link to starlink down there i'm not getting paid by these guys i just want you guys if you live in a rural area to have good internet we're actually going to do a…