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Meanwhile in the Tesla/SpaceX corner we have space based broadband just around the corner: https://hackernoon.com/will-spacex-become-the-worlds-biggest-telecom
by Theodores 9y ago
Meanwhile in the Tesla/SpaceX corner we have space based broadband just around the corner:
https://hackernoon.com/will-spacex-become-the-worlds-biggest-telecoms-provider-probably-f1cdb22d00cc https://hackernoon.com/will-spacex-become-the-worlds-biggest...
With nearby Tesla cars and SolarCity roofs giving your phone 5g with 25ms latency. It could happen. Soon you will be able to buy a VPS in space to halve that.
One day this space based network is going to come online and it will supercede many terrestrial upgrades, making things like the TelCo 5G roll out not needed after all.
- Dylan16807 9y ago> Soon you will be able to buy a VPS in space to halve that. Maybe if you migrate it every 5 minutes. Otherwise it's spending half its life on the other side of the planet.
- ajdlinux 9y agohttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geostationary_orbit https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geostationary_orbit
- mjg59 9y agoGeostationary orbit is more than 25msec away.
- kees99 9y agoFirst hop on my ADSL connection is 43msec away (RTT).
- Dylan16807 9y agoYeah, that sort of thing is annoying, but it could be improved down to 4 if they actually cared much. The point here is that going to geostationary is at least a quarter second round-trip, and blows the 25ms estimate out of the water. You can put servers in orbit if you really want to, but you can't have a satellite that's both fast to access and also in range for more than a few minutes at a time.