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Why only wireless internet from space? Will they provide a wired option in the future too? (Edit: this was a wires to space joke)
by reustle 8y ago
Why only wireless internet from space? Will they provide a wired option in the future too?
(Edit: this was a wires to space joke)
- DeonPenny 8y agoLess infrastructure. Why build towers when you can buy internet from space. Also you can sell world wide in seconds. You can sell it in china behind the firewall. In india in the middle of nowhere. In south america. All with no towers or wires.
- gpm 8y ago> You can sell it in china behind the firewall. That sounds like a stellar way to get your satellites shot down.
- TotempaaltJ 8y agoOr they'll just block import of your antennas...
- dmix 8y agoCan China disrupt the frequency somehow? Considering there will be thousands of them in constant orbit that sounds like a difficult thing to do. Much easier to regulate the "pizza box" receivers I guess. But they can be mobile and taken down when not in use.
- _Microft 8y agoSpaceX could disable ground to satellite connections over China if they requested that.
- vkou 8y ago> You can sell it in china behind the firewall. Yes, because the police can't figure out how to raid someone who puts a satellite dish up on their roof.
- azeotropic 8y agoPlease tell me you're joking. These satellites are 100km up, moving at 8km/s. You're not going to be able to run a cable from them to your house.
- BeefySwain 8y ago550km
- MVorlm 8y agoThe op clearly means a traditional wired service like Google Fibre. E.g 'SpaceX Fibre'
- azeotropic 8y agoWhy would SpaceX run fiber? Wouldn't that be more in the boring company's line?
- gpm 8y agoStrictly speaking the boring company is part of SpaceX. Not that this addresses your question.
- MVorlm 8y agoI don't know. I'm not the one who asked the question. I'm simply clarifying what someone asked. Alternatively, they could be asking for 'wired' in the where there's a central base station, and each individual home has wired connection to that. Regardless, I assuming the op _didn't_ mean running a physical wire from a sat in space.
- toasterlovin 8y agoFWIW, the OP's wording was confusing. It took me a minute to realize that they were talking about something like Google Fiber, not literally running a wire from Earth to an orbiting satellite.
- mattashii 8y ago"SpaceX Fibre" sounds like a space elevator product from SpaceX ... ... which then probably could technically supply "wired internet from space"
- tlrobinson 8y agoSpaceX has a competitive advantage because they own the (reusable) rockets. I mean, it's in their name...