Starlink satellite internet beta results

If this actually gets me hi speed internet in the middle of nowhere, there's a looooootttt of place I want to go over landing while still making money...
 
I remember when I had Direcway/HughesNet and the pings were like 700 - 1000+ ms and thinking it was a physical limitation of having to travel all the way to a satellite and back.

38ms is way better than I expected. If they can get to 15ms to 30ms I might consider switching if the price and bandwidth limitations aren't as absurd as current satellite providers.
 
I think the societal impact of this on income disparities will be...pretty significant.

Distribution of upper middle class population to rural US will cause gentrification of sorts...on the flip side, this might revitalize dying areas of the US as well
 
I pay 150 bucks a month for this bullshit. Fuck it! Bring those satellites over to South Florida! I'm ready!


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lol @ being faster than Australian internet.

Maybe they can put one in Alice Spring so us Aussies can all leech off it.....
 
Everyone in that twitter thread are flexing their internet speed and how it's better. People are dumb and don't realize over 50% of the world doesn't have internet.

This is the internet for them and the people who want to live away from society.
 
The rest of the world needs things like food and shelter before they even consider getting internet lol it's good they're trying to create better signal strengths
 
EverydayBeast said:
The rest of the world needs things like food and shelter before they even consider getting internet lol it's good they're trying to create better signal strengths
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We have not arrived fully in the new millenium until every Indian male is able to join facebook and ask for bobs and vegana.

 
One of my friends received a notification for this and told me it was US $99/month + $500 for the dish and router. That's a bit steep for the 50-150Mbps they're able to hit now, but it'll be a different story when they can hit 1Gbps+.

Elon's been able to deploy his satellites and get the service up and running faster than Bell's been able to deliver FTTH around Montreal, their FTTN maxes out around 50Mbps in my part of the island. :messenger_grimmacing_
 
i've always wanted to infuse insane tech with rural living, nearly complete sustainability far away from the grid as humanly possible

i want living forests
 
Is this going to be available to everyone eventually or just certain locations?
 
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CloudNull said:
Everyone in that twitter thread are flexing their internet speed and how it's better. People are dumb and don't realize over 50% of the world doesn't have internet.

This is the internet for them and the people who want to live away from society.
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Elon's haters are very stupid
 
Oh man, my dream of buying a house in the middle of nowhere and still have enough bandwidth to download next gen games is closer than ever. Thanks Elon.
 
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The rest of the world needs things like food and shelter before they even consider getting internet lol it's good they're trying to create better signal strengths
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Don't discount internet access though. It can allow impoverished populations to provide online services and create jobs.
 
Nice.

Living in a rural area this past 2 years with only very slow internet available (3 mbs and it dies like twice a week) and terrible cell reception (at most 3g) I'd definitely welcome this.

So far I've taken advantage that my workplace has good internet and I just take my console/PC with me when there's something large I want to download. But it's pretty annoying
 
how bad would these get if there's bad weather or thick clouds? the upload/download seems decent but I would hate it if the connection takes a hit or breaks every time a cloud pass by near me.
 
Robot Carnival said:
how bad would these get if there's bad weather or thick clouds? the upload/download seems decent but I would hate it if the connection takes a hit or breaks every time a cloud pass by near me.
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k and w bands on constellation array should fair well in most situations

rain fade may limit dynamic operations, timing corrections and binary groups
 
Our only source of internet at the house (very rural location) is through an LTE hotspot, which costs way too much. We need new options. I usually download things to watch etc when I drive into my office space in town.
 
Germany is getting it as well now, which is good for them considering their underdeveloped internet infrastructure. It's quite literally surrounded by nations offering gigabit speeds across their countries while especially lagging behind in mobile outside a couple of large cities.

I live in the Netherlands, and my ISP has a pathetic-ass maximum upload speed of 50 Mb/s on their gigabit downstream package. Regardless of how actual speeds are going to play out, extra competition will murder the companies that settled in on their markets. Not to mention my neighbors in Belgium who have data caps for no particular reason at all other than fuck you.
 
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