Gaming with Starlink on top of a MOUNTAIN | Vanlife Gaming

[Music] no time to be wasted we just got a package we just got a package we just got a package i wonder who it's from today my friends is a monumental day in history for the van life gaming community why you ask i'll tell you why well if you've been following me you would know that i live travel in-game out of my van and one of the biggest hurdles i've had with my lifestyle is maintaining a good and steady internet connection because i live completely off grid however that all changed a couple days ago when spacex announced that starlink is now available for van life gamers like me and maybe even you and if you don't know what starlink is it's essentially a satellite internet service designed by spacex that allows for anybody around the world wherever you are to have internet access and theoretically the way this is supposed to work i could literally be on top of a mountain just like this one and have high speed unthrottled uncapped internet so when that announcement was made a couple days ago i smashed that order now button because i am ready to take van life gaming to the next level and the day has finally come my friends starlink arrived just yesterday and today we're gonna unpack this thing we're gonna hook it up we're gonna point it to the sky run some speed tests and even game on this thing to see if the hype is really hype but before we get into all that i just want to remind you guys that if you do end up enjoying this video make sure to let me know by liking commenting subscribing and turning on all notifications so you don't miss out on any of my future uploads now with that being said let's do this thing let's freaking do this bro let's freaking go bro come on dude let's do it all right so we've got our trusty camping table laid out and ready for the unboxing and the moment that we've all been waiting for moment of truth here we go baby you got to make the sound effects if you don't make the sound effects it's not that epic whoa this packaging is really cool here are the feet of the satellite and the satellite boy himself oh my gosh dude this thing is meaty wow but i like the way it looks it matches the aesthetic of my van i'm pretty excited about that we've got some instructions here and i believe this is the router however i don't see an ethernet port on this bad boy which is a little weird huh we'll look into that okay oh gosh looking at the instructions here um it looks alarmingly simple to set up based off this really small instruction book we've got here all you have to do is connect the dish to the modem power the modem and then open up the starlink app and boom you've got internet that sounds a little too good to be true but that's what elon says he says that's how you do it so that's what we're gonna do all right so the dish is officially sliding in to the feet that was a nice satisfying sound okay so now that the dish is set up on the table we're gonna run this cable into the van and then set up the modem and plug her on in baby okay everything's plugged in now to plug it into my outlet down here this is a big moment everyone i'm about to plug in the modem are you ready for this in three two one oh it's moving it's moving oh look at it it's rotating dude this is too cool i don't know why i'm so stoked about this right now it just i don't this is so futuristic but before we get too deep into the starlink speed test i need to tell you guys something pretty exciting so listen up if you're interested in living like i do you know living and traveling all over the country and being able to take your house and everything you own with you on those adventures well now is your chance because omaze is offering you a chance to win an airstream caravel 20 fb and a ram 1500 limited truck which isn't quite a van i know but honestly i wish i had this set up sometimes because having the ability to park your airstream at a campsite and not have to pack up and move everything every time you need to make a run into town to 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you guys know that i am connected to nomad internet which has been my internet solution for a couple months now however while nomad internet does work well because it uses cell phone data as opposed to hotspot data the problem with it is that you need to have sell signal in order for the internet to work and right now i'm connected to nomad internet and i'm gonna see if i can do a speed test so we can get a general idea of what sort of speeds we're getting with nomad before we connect to starlink and do a starlings test and just for reference i am in the rocky mountains of colorado right now and i have little to no cell service so i highly doubt we're gonna even have any sort of speeds reading on the speed test yep and there you go the test can't be completed due to a problem with the network try again later so we are gonna try and connect to starlink i'm gonna go down here oh there it is connect dear starlink please work and just out perform nomad internet and just change the game oh what is what is happening it says no internet oh wait what's going on oh oh i got a web page just loaded on my screen google just loaded okay let's do a speed test oh my gosh i cannot believe this is happening right now we are about to do a speed test on starlink in the middle of the rocky mountains of colorado [Music] come on starling come on [Music] my connection was interrupted okay that's interesting that's not a good sign we don't like that okay so this is interesting it says that i'm at my unexpected location which would make sense if i didn't have portability activated on my starling account but i do and i'm just thinking maybe it just takes a couple of minutes or maybe even hours for it to update and let the servers know that i have portability activated and if that is the case i might just have to let this sit for a while until it fully calibrates and then i'll check back in i guess alright so i'm gonna look into this and i'll get back to you guys in just a second okay so it's been a few minutes and my theory was correct after waiting just a few minutes the dish connected to the servers and the servers told the dish that i have portability and now everything's online and we've got internet and i decided to whip out my gaming setup and bring it outside for dramatic effect but uh it's looking kind of cloudy now it's making me a little nervous but i've already committed so we're gonna we're gonna do this thing big time and if it just starts raining that'll be good content i guess okay so here we go speed test happening in three two one now i wanna say that this speed test isn't like super accurate because i am wirelessly connected to the modem i'm not hardwired but either way it's going to give us some numbers to have some sort of point of reference right now the download is 165 megabits per second holy crap that's incredible the ping is a little high at 79 and the upload is 7.35 megabits per second the upload could be a little higher for me but you know what we are in the middle of nowhere so i'm gonna take this however i want to do another speed test just because the numbers are going to vary because this is satellite internet satellites are coming and going all the time let's do one more speed test to make sure this is accurate okay ping is 55 this time not too bad not too bad download is holding up pretty strong here i'm liking these numbers i'm really liking these numbers well there you have it the second speed test is almost just as good the peeing is better at 55 the download is 77 which is lower but it's still good and the upload is 7.45 which is good enough to live stream on you need at least six megabits per second so i mean for me being in the middle of nowhere this is freaking incredible i'm super happy with this and i cannot believe these numbers exist with this this internet i'm i'm like freaking blown away right now this is insane but we're not gonna stop there we're gonna play at least one game on this internet to make sure these numbers hold up so i am gonna get ready to play some overwatch because that's my game of choice you already know but you can't judge me for my gameplay it's been a while so uh just if i start sucking just admire the view behind me i guess i'm gonna do a quick play match and i'm gonna do support because i'm a supporting kind of guy okay i am gonna play moira because it's easy okay here we go now i'm gonna be honest i can't really see the screen here so uh if i suck i'm just gonna i'm gonna blame it on that so far no rubber banding everything's looking good everything's feeling good heal this boy gotta heal him heal him up heal him up heal him up heal him up oh oh oh my gosh i can't see anything right now i got you i got you winston don't worry i'm healing you up come on oh oh oh no freak okay despite me being really awful at the game right now can we just admire how well the game is playing on this internet like we are in the middle of nowhere in the mountains playing a competitive game there's no rubber banding no lag nothing it is smooth as butter oh no they got him they got our boy oh my gosh i really can't see it's too it's too bright outside right now freak he's above us he's above us get him got him wait that was a poor time poor timing ah run run run run run this is insane dude we're holding this off really well yes dude we're freaking killing it you're welcome oh my gosh it's getting intense oh oh run spread spread out oh gosh no way dude oh oh my gosh soldier get out of my way no no dude i mean come on dude are you kidding me are you kidding me well there you have it guys this is the peak of van life gaming and i cannot wait to show you guys all the cool things i have planned now that i have reliable internet that i can take anywhere in the world with me and i hope you guys are as excited as i am because things are about to change here on this channel we just leveled up a significant amount me and you we were down here but now with starlink in the mix you and i baby we are at the tippy top of the mountain quite literally i hope you guys are as excited as i am and if you are let me know by liking this video commenting on it sharing it with a friend making sure you're subscribed and you have all notifications turned on so you don't miss out on any of my future van life gaming content like this but there you have it guys i gotta start packing up here because i'm starting to feel some raindrops and i gotta pack up all this gear so thanks for watching guys i'll see you next time hope you have a killer freaking week peace [Music] uh [Music]

Channel: TTTHEFINEPRINTTT

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Keywords: vanlife, vanlife travel, van life, ttthefineprinttt, living in a van, vanlife tips, Solo Vanlife, living in a van alone, solo male vanlifer, van living, how to live in a van, how to vanlife, off grid living, off grid, off grid lifestyle, how to build a van, starlink, gaming on starlink, starlink speed test, gaming off grid, vanlife gaming, gaming in a van, vanlife gamer, starlink vanlife, starlink internet, Starlink rv, starlink review, vancity vanlife, starlink setup

Id: qUA5WzpX8Cw

Length: 16min 20sec (980 seconds)

Published: Sat Jun 04 2022

Reddit Comments

[u/jezra]

it works for some, and not for others..

saved you 16 minutes :)

[u/Professional-Tip4008]

Works for me gaming in canada.

[u/Lazy-Boat8535]

Some ga,es are fine for me but others not. For example arma3 server lag is really bad sometimes but other games are fine.