And that was supposed to be the backbone of the space based data center
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Satellite internet is a last resort. People shouldn't be using it if they have fibre broadband or 5G options that provide the same speeds. It's a lifesaver if you're on a boat, or live off grid, or just a few miles from where the broadband ends. But if it's anywhere with other people then it's going to max out with horrible contention. At the point the only option is "moar satellites".
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Who wrote this article?
"A SpaceX support page (which appears to only be available in Swahili, for some erason)"
Don't get me wrong. Fuck any satellite service, and especially FUCK fElon. This article is trash, though.
I mean, high demand shouldn't justify surprise pricing
Guy is being a little too trigger happy with this bait and switch but it should still surprise absolutely no one. Starlink with it‘s thousands of satellites, requiring hundreds of rocket launches is ridiculously expensive to operate and can‘t hope to compete with fiber price wise.
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If a V1 satellite only has 24 Gbit/s in total capacity on its links to the base station, and a V2 mini satellite only 96 Gbit/s, then it's no wonder really.
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I saw my first billboard advertising Starlink in Billings, MT today. They have avoided advertising in the past.
Generally they haven't needed to. For most of the situations where Starlink really shines like rural connections, the alternatives are objectively a lot worse. And the other common situation is to avoid a regional monopoly which is still like 90% of the US.
Starlink basically sells itself, even with Elon at the helm.
Starlink will enshittify like all other non-PUD ISPs. This article shows that, and it's already begun to struggle with throughput and scaling it is becoming more and more of a challenge.
There is one alternative that has been shown to be better than anything else: PUD projects which treat internet access as a utility and not something to make more and more money off of. The FCC has rural grants for ISPs that serve rural areas, but instead of exclusively funding PUD projects, they keep giving money to big for-profit ISPs (like Starlink).
Starlink should be considered a band-aid and only something that you'd need when you were in a super rural area without other utilities. The solution is giving everyone with grid connections public fiber via PUDs.
I know we don't live in a utopia where that will happen overnight, and we don't have an FCC that gives a shit. But the FCC should not be giving a trillionaire taxpayer dollars for a half-baked, polluting, wasteful service that will ultimately do the same rugpull that other private ISPs have done.
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I am guessing this is to amp up the stock price of the GrokSpaceLink IPO.
Fine by me. All his customers are a bunch of suckers
I am an IT bod with a mountain rescue team in the UK. Personally I would bin starlink in a heartbeat. I dislike Elon, I dislike the privatisation of satellite garbage. The impact it had on the night sky, on astronomy. I dislike the pettish for abuse from a fascist American oligarchy and government.
However... For now it is by far the single best option when cell communications are out of range.
Ukraine is a user, as is (with stolen terminals) Russia.
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