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I'll get excited about fast broadband when it's actually available and delivered to me and I do the speed test and it's as fast as promised. There's so much ta
by kresten 7y ago
I'll get excited about fast broadband when it's actually available and delivered to me and I do the speed test and it's as fast as promised.
There's so much talk about broadband and its potential and so little actually delivered.
Show me the speed test. Everything else is just vaporware.
- gibolt 7y agoWe already have satellite internet. It is 100x further from earth and using ooooold technology, compared to the Starlink fleet. The scale of satellites planned for Starlink is nearly 2 orders of magnitude more than all satellites ever launched. Current count of everything humanity has sent up is less than 2000, 40,000 is planned for Starlink. The change in viable throughput and what it means to a globally accessible, high-speed network is worth discussing.
- kresten 7y agoAs I say, show me a product I can buy that delivers on the promise, then it's interesting.
- shaklee3 7y agoThis is completely false. Which new technology do you think starlink satellite have that others don't? They're actually significantly less sophisticated than many older satellites. The only difference is they're planning to launch such a large number of them, but that has nothing to do with the payload technology. There are plenty of others that will/do give good throughout globally by that time, or sooner.
- snovv_crash 7y agoQuantity has a quality all of its own
- ben_w 7y agoAre the laser links used elsewhere yet? I remember reading about various people being interested in them, but this is the first deployment I’ve heard of.
- shaklee3 7y agoThere have been many filings in the past to use them, but only iridium came to fruition.