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Installing Starlink (Satellite Internet) Off-Grid in Portugal

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Installing Starlink (Satellite Internet) Off-Grid in Portugal

When we’re faced with less than ideal circumstances we’re always looking for ways to improve the situation. We’ve been dealing with pretty poor internet connectivity – via a 4G data SIM – for the last two years. It’s time for an upgrade!

In this video we’ll go through the whole process from unboxing to installation to having a positive (and hopefully faster!) Internet experience. We’ll talk about the costs of Starlink in Portugal, contrast this to 4G data and – of course – compare the speeds of each.

Let’s find out if Starlink satellite internet from Space X is any good.

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39 COMMENTS

  1. I have to agree 100% about the satisfaction you feel when you look at what you’ve accomplished. I am currently looking at recipes for lime cordial and will do it soon. I am in recovery mode now from working on our off grid property, which is a houseboat in the middle of a lake. I prepped and prepped and prepped our motor box, a steel structure 4’ deep into the water and 4’ wide and 6’ long, used 2 part epoxy….so happy that’s done and it looks fantastic, thank god!

  2. The starlink service is going to change the world, it is opening up the internet and all the knowledge to everywhere on the planet.

    It also means that for remote areas they will have a monopoly in every country.

  3. I live in the middle of nowhere in the US and they haven't opened the cell that would allow me to get a StarLink. I now live with (and pay for) three hot spots, one for each of the big three providers

  4. How was you 4G service with Meo in terms of reception? Beter than Vodafone? Maybe you shouldn't have switched to Vodafone without making sure their service in your area was good. Also, wirelessly is the most innacurate way to test internet speeds.
    17:06 – Beware of how you read those results: the upload speed from your phone to the router might be 183 Mbps but the router will only upload at 41 Mbps to the internet.

    I don't trust anything that comes from low orbit satellites, the only satellite services I trust are the TV services because the satellites are on a fixed orbit and even so, adverse weather conditions can cause temporary or intermittent disruptions to the service, so keep that in mind now that we're going into Autumn and Winter.

  5. Hi guys, we have just moved into Fundao, we are on the same rebuild journey as you. Can we ask where did you order the Starlink. We go to their site and it gives us much higher price, seems to think we are ordering from the UK?

  6. Perhaps you can install a booster, so you can reach your house. Also, 65 euros sounds great compared to what we pay here (~56 equivalent euros and twice as slow).

  7. From what I understood you can subscribe/unsubscribe the Starlink service on a monthly basis, is that correct?
    I have a small off grid Tiny House that is used some three to four months a year, that kind of service, if do not require to pay for the all year, would be a great option.

  8. i was geting around 2 meg when i was useing the routers areals showcked you did not try an antenna before buying starlink it helped me get from 2mbs to 12 mbs and the nearins link s like 2 miles. i want starlink anyway but this way happy middle ground but i am sure they have limited our speeds as was geting 40mbs.

  9. remember in since febuary of this year starlink has being setup to run on +12v cigarette plugs in cars mainly to help the Ukrainans who Elon personally dispatched countless terminals to in a record breaking 40 hours, that is proably some of the reason you have a 40w power draw, your power draw is proably a side effect of tweeks performed for the Ukrainans

  10. Don't worry about the tractor noise in the background, I didn't notice it at all. Let us know how Starlink is going in a few months. Cheers! People think Starlink is expensive but they forget that you get 100x the speed with only 2x the cost in rural areas.

  11. I’m not saying that it would match star link 200+ mbps download but I bet that you have bought 2 external antennas for your router an pointing them to the cell tower would give up more then enough broadband to easily upload videos on youtube. That for 30€ a month and the price of the antennas – 70€ – that you only pay once. Thats what I use in a location very close to yours with the same 2mbps service from Vodafone.

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