Posted on 01/15/2024 11:34:26 AM PST by 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.
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.
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.
That was years ago. Not so much any more. Data caps are gone and the speeds have improved a great deal.
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..............
For reliability I prefer a hard wire for Internet access (fiber is fine).
Wow.
It is like they are carbon copies.
Some friends are full time vanlife campers. They seem to have good success with theirs.
Soon - smaller and faster...
*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.
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.
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. :-)
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.
no it does not put cell phone companies out of biz.
And Google...who just plowed thru our neighborhood to lay fiber optics. Lousy, lousy job.
Number One Grifter...
You are correct. A phased array antenna. Cool tech.
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!
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.
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