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Starlink will not cost $80 for the gigabit plan. I'd wager there won't be a gigabit plan. They need thousands of customers per 20Gbps satellite for this to even
by shaklee3 6y ago
Starlink will not cost $80 for the gigabit plan. I'd wager there won't be a gigabit plan. They need thousands of customers per 20Gbps satellite for this to even start to make sense. You cannot fit even a couple hundred 1Gbps customers on a single satellite.
- zaarn 6y agoYou can certainly fit a couple hundred 1Gbps customers on a 20GBps satellite provided you make sure that those people don't completely saturate the entire line at the same time.
- shaklee3 6y agoYes, I know how the modeling works. For a 100Gbps subscriber they will need to guarantee that they can achieve 100G peak speeds when nobody is using it. That means the beam the user is in always has to be illuminated with as much power as they need for 100G. Remember, this power is shared between all the other beams on that satellite.
- dan1234 6y agoAt 60:1 contention ratio (which used to be BT’s standard for home ADSL), you’d be able to squeeze 1,200 Gb plans per satellite.
- shaklee3 6y ago60:1 is not realistic for a 100G plan. See my other comment.
- samoa42 6y ago> You cannot fit even a couple hundred 1Gbps customers on a single satellite. ISP's totally do overcommit in the range of thousands
- shaklee3 6y agoThey do for lower tier plans. Not 100G plans.