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Starlink Mini Dish Coming Later This Year, Elon Musk Says
PC Magazine | January 13, 2024 | By Michael Kan

Posted on 01/15/2024 11:34:26 AM PST by Red Badger

LINK ONLY PER PUBLISHER.............

https://www.pcmag.com/news/starlink-mini-dish-coming-later-this-year-elon-musk-says


TOPICS: Business/Economy; Computers/Internet; Military/Veterans; TV/Movies
KEYWORDS: angryzeeper; communications; elonmusk; putinista; spacex; starlink
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To: Red Badger

Regular satellite Internet is notorious for high latency. It’s pretty much impossible to have multiplayer gaming over such a connection. The signal is going to a satellite in geosynchronous orbit more than 20,000 miles away, one way. That eats into Internet speed bigtime.


21 posted on 01/15/2024 12:11:15 PM PST by Ciaphas Cain (Dear Claire Wolfe: Is it still "too early"?)
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To: Ciaphas Cain

Starlink satellites are in Low Earth Orbit.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Starlink


22 posted on 01/15/2024 12:13:06 PM PST by Red Badger (Homeless veterans camp in the streets while illegal aliens are put up in hotels.....................)
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To: Red Badger
"What is wrong with HughesNet?....."

Very, very slow. Huge latencies, plus low data caps. Very expensive if someone is trying to work from home.

All those problems went away with Starlink.

23 posted on 01/15/2024 12:18:15 PM PST by billorites (freepo ergo sum)
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To: Ciaphas Cain

Internet service was my biggest concern moving from the city to the country, but we’ve been so happy with Starlink. We can be on the computer, streaming on Roku, and gaming at the same time with no issues whatsoever, even during big rainstorms.


24 posted on 01/15/2024 12:19:29 PM PST by TauntedTiger (If voting mattered, they wouldn't let us do it. Mark Twain)
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To: billorites

That was years ago. Not so much any more. Data caps are gone and the speeds have improved a great deal.


25 posted on 01/15/2024 12:21:13 PM PST by Army Air Corps (Four Fried Chickens and a Coke)
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To: billorites

My daughter and her family had it when they lived out in the sticks and never had any problems that I’m aware of.

But they weren’t using it for business or gaming..............


26 posted on 01/15/2024 12:23:24 PM PST by Red Badger (Homeless veterans camp in the streets while illegal aliens are put up in hotels.....................)
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To: Red Badger

For reliability I prefer a hard wire for Internet access (fiber is fine).


27 posted on 01/15/2024 12:26:37 PM PST by G Larry ("XFKAT" We can't keep spelling out "X Formerly Known As Twitter"!)
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To: dayglored
Both have green grass and clouds in a blue sky.

Wow.

It is like they are carbon copies.

28 posted on 01/15/2024 12:27:02 PM PST by Harmless Teddy Bear ( In a quaint alleyway, they graciously signaled for a vehicle on the main road to lead the way. )
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To: Red Badger

Some friends are full time vanlife campers. They seem to have good success with theirs.


29 posted on 01/15/2024 12:27:47 PM PST by cyclotic (Don’t be part of the problem. Be the entire problem)
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To: Moltke

Soon - smaller and faster...


30 posted on 01/15/2024 12:30:51 PM PST by GOPJ (FoxNews Lawrence Jones needs to visit Black, Hispanic and Asian breakfast places too.Let's get real)
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To: Red Badger

*That’s because they can’t pay.................*

Come on. Those unused drop wires are an eyesore. I switched to ATT Air for $55/mo. The old bill was $70. The old company was? ATT. Open space is a lot easier to maintain than telephone cables.


31 posted on 01/15/2024 12:44:17 PM PST by DIRTYSECRET
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To: Ciaphas Cain

In Musk’s speech to employees he said, as I recall, the speed of light eats 8 milliseconds, but he thinks he can get latency down to 10ms, just 2 ms slower than the speed of light - he does say that gamers will be thrilled.


32 posted on 01/15/2024 1:07:05 PM PST by PIF (They came for me and mine ... now its your turn)
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To: Harmless Teddy Bear
> Both have green grass and clouds in a blue sky. Wow. It is like they are carbon copies.

LOL, my post was tongue-in-cheek. My eye caught the similarities, so I posted that in case somebody else was like, "That composition is vaguely familiar, where have I seen that before?".

Other than, you know, out in a field of green grass under a blue sky with white clouds. :-)

33 posted on 01/15/2024 1:19:06 PM PST by dayglored (Strange Women Lying In Ponds Distributing Swords! Arthur Pendragon in 2024)
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To: Red Badger

Over 2 million subscribers worldwide; service seems too expensive to me, but for remote locations, or places even more rural than where I live (I’ve got two fiber options, at least two DSL options, at least one old-line overland dish option, and various cellular hotspot options), or people who like no solid connection with the www, it’ll probably grow like mad; big moat.

Only way to invest in SpaceX (which basically owns it) or Starlink until their eventual IPOs (and there are no plans for either IPO) seems to be Baron Focused Growth Fund.

https://www.baronfunds.com/sites/default/files/baron-focused-growth-fund-fact-sheet-bfgix-9.30.23_2.pdf


34 posted on 01/15/2024 1:20:38 PM PST by SunkenCiv (Putin should skip ahead to where he kills himself in the bunker.)
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To: Fungi

no it does not put cell phone companies out of biz.


35 posted on 01/15/2024 1:34:21 PM PST by BereanBrain
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To: Fungi

And Google...who just plowed thru our neighborhood to lay fiber optics. Lousy, lousy job.


36 posted on 01/15/2024 1:44:43 PM PST by moovova ("The NEXT election is the most important election of our lifetimes!“ LOL...)
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To: Red Badger

Number One Grifter...


37 posted on 01/15/2024 1:56:46 PM PST by mazz44 (http://knowledgeofhealth.com/why-animals-age-they-produce-less-vitamin-c-same-for-humans/)
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To: jacknhoo

You are correct. A phased array antenna. Cool tech.


38 posted on 01/15/2024 2:43:23 PM PST by wgmalabama (Slug slime art is Jason as important as Ukraine theft of US monetary/military funds. )
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To: Red Badger
Nice. From the article:

Previously, a single Starlink dish cost $3,000 to produce, but the company has been steadily driving down the manufacturing costs. This has involved opening a new Starlink factory in Texas, which Musk referred to in his speech.

The company’s other major goal is to operate a cellular version of Starlink that can beam data to phones on the ground, giving a way for consumers to digitally communicate even in the most remote regions. On Thursday, SpaceX demonstrated that the technology works, successfully relaying text messages from a batch of newly launched “Direct to Cell” Starlink satellites to unmodified phones on the ground.

Texas factory--made in America, and the good part of the USA, too.... Starlink cell phone access? What a great thing!

39 posted on 01/15/2024 2:49:17 PM PST by Alas Babylon! (Repeal the Patriot Act; Abolish the DHS; reform FBI top to bottom!)
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To: dayglored
Yeah, I hoped you were joking. :)

Talked with someone the other day who was deadly serious about how, "this story has the same elements as that story so they must have the same source". Using the power of Britannica I pulled up 5 legends from different cultures that had the same story beats. They might forgive me in a year or two.

40 posted on 01/15/2024 3:10:16 PM PST by Harmless Teddy Bear ( In a quaint alleyway, they graciously signaled for a vehicle on the main road to lead the way. )
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