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Faster than? Also, does anyone know who's behind this effort? Other leaders would celebrate the people behind the development but at spacex and tesla it's only

Faster than? Also, does anyone know who's behind this effort? Other leaders would celebrate the people behind the development but at spacex and tesla it's only ever news about Musk? Any interesting people behind what is happening at SpaceX ?

m463 6y ago
It appears to be faster than rural Wisconsin internet service. someone I know (coincidentally in wisconsin) is getting 100m down 20m up There's always (the other) Linus: https://youtu.be/Fh1a2K9ZgNA https://youtu.be/Fh1a2K9ZgNA
- JasonFruit 6y ago
  I'm in Wisconsin, just got it, and am seeing 65-115 down, 15-40 up. I was hoping it would be better than Hughesnet, but I didn't expect it would be quite this good. I did have about a five minute downtime yesterday. Not too shabby!
  - SkyPuncher 6y ago
    What's your latency like? I'm in exurban Wisconsin. Speeds are fine, but Charter has terrible routing that pushes everything out to Minnesota before routing back down to Chicago. 40ms to 60ms latency on EVERYTHING.
    - JasonFruit 6y ago
      It's varied from as low as 30ms up to almost 80. Latency is just not going to be great with satellites, seeing that we're pushing it out to fricking space.
      - brianwawok 6y ago
        Except it’s low space. And signals travel faster in air than in glass. And the path is likely more direct. Just space alone isn’t enough to say the latency will be worse.
        m463 6y ago
        yes, just 341 miles. so 3.6 milliseconds raw speed-of-light round trip when overhead. I don't know what it would be like as it reaches the horizon, and how much latency each hop takes.
      - alextheparrot 6y ago
        You might be interested in https://youtu.be/m05abdGSOxY https://youtu.be/m05abdGSOxY, for some (long) routes it can theoretically be faster.
- alextheparrot 6y ago
  Yeah, they were getting 8 down 3 up in a rural area via a locally run ISP. Starlink is insanely disruptive in that market.
aero-glide2 6y ago
Couldn't find names but the employees did an AMA on reddit https://www.reddit.com/r/Starlink/comments/jybmgn/we_are_the_starlink_team_ask_us_anything/ https://www.reddit.com/r/Starlink/comments/jybmgn/we_are_the...
- rjzzleep 6y ago
  > Couldn't find names That's kinda sad, isn't it?
  - mulcahey 6y ago
    Per this article Mark Juncosa has lead the development of the satellites https://qz.com/1627570/how-autonomous-are-spacexs-starlink-satellites/ https://qz.com/1627570/how-autonomous-are-spacexs-starlink-s...
    - rjzzleep 6y ago
      From what I see he's been working at SpaceX since he graduated college. I don't see where his satcom knowledge comes from, which is arguable the most interesting part of Starlink. Not the vehicle design. It's really unfortunate that this company unlike most companies treats all the brain drain as an ego trip.
Rule35 6y ago
I haven't heard anything about NDAs that prevent you talking about the general area of your work at any of Musk's companies. There are certainly people on LinkedIn talking about what they do. Look at any FAANG presentation. The VP of the department introduces a PM, who may have a senior engineer with them. The other 98% of the team isn't mentioned. > That's kinda sad, isn't it? Why don't you start a thread about it. Poll workers and see if they find themselves upset by it or not. Don't just borrow offense on their behalf.
- viraptor 6y ago
  I feel like there are also some jobs is rather not be too public about. I got customers finding me and trying to reach out directly in much more mundane scenarios. If I worked at SpaceX in an engineering role, I think I'd be keeping it pretty private (not secret).
pfundstein 6y ago
Musk never claims credit for the work of his team. The burden of proof is on you. That said, I recall he has not only explicitly credited lead engineers by name but also discussed their technologies with them and given them stage time to discuss their tech with the audience. [see the automation day videos for example]
alextheparrot 6y ago
This was compared to a local run ISP that they connect to via a local tower (Farm silo). The ISP licenses spectrum from Verizon iirc.

m463 6y ago

It appears to be faster than rural Wisconsin internet service. someone I know (coincidentally in wisconsin) is getting 100m down 20m up There's always (the other) Linus: https://youtu.be/Fh1a2K9ZgNA https://youtu.be/Fh1a2K9ZgNA

JasonFruit 6y ago
I'm in Wisconsin, just got it, and am seeing 65-115 down, 15-40 up. I was hoping it would be better than Hughesnet, but I didn't expect it would be quite this good. I did have about a five minute downtime yesterday. Not too shabby!
- SkyPuncher 6y ago
  What's your latency like? I'm in exurban Wisconsin. Speeds are fine, but Charter has terrible routing that pushes everything out to Minnesota before routing back down to Chicago. 40ms to 60ms latency on EVERYTHING.
  - JasonFruit 6y ago
    It's varied from as low as 30ms up to almost 80. Latency is just not going to be great with satellites, seeing that we're pushing it out to fricking space.
    - brianwawok 6y ago
      Except it’s low space. And signals travel faster in air than in glass. And the path is likely more direct. Just space alone isn’t enough to say the latency will be worse.
      - m463 6y ago
        yes, just 341 miles. so 3.6 milliseconds raw speed-of-light round trip when overhead. I don't know what it would be like as it reaches the horizon, and how much latency each hop takes.
    - alextheparrot 6y ago
      You might be interested in https://youtu.be/m05abdGSOxY https://youtu.be/m05abdGSOxY, for some (long) routes it can theoretically be faster.
alextheparrot 6y ago
Yeah, they were getting 8 down 3 up in a rural area via a locally run ISP. Starlink is insanely disruptive in that market.

aero-glide2 6y ago

Couldn't find names but the employees did an AMA on reddit https://www.reddit.com/r/Starlink/comments/jybmgn/we_are_the_starlink_team_ask_us_anything/ https://www.reddit.com/r/Starlink/comments/jybmgn/we_are_the...

rjzzleep 6y ago
> Couldn't find names That's kinda sad, isn't it?
- mulcahey 6y ago
  Per this article Mark Juncosa has lead the development of the satellites https://qz.com/1627570/how-autonomous-are-spacexs-starlink-satellites/ https://qz.com/1627570/how-autonomous-are-spacexs-starlink-s...
  - rjzzleep 6y ago
    From what I see he's been working at SpaceX since he graduated college. I don't see where his satcom knowledge comes from, which is arguable the most interesting part of Starlink. Not the vehicle design. It's really unfortunate that this company unlike most companies treats all the brain drain as an ego trip.

Rule35 6y ago

I haven't heard anything about NDAs that prevent you talking about the general area of your work at any of Musk's companies. There are certainly people on LinkedIn talking about what they do. Look at any FAANG presentation. The VP of the department introduces a PM, who may have a senior engineer with them. The other 98% of the team isn't mentioned. > That's kinda sad, isn't it? Why don't you start a thread about it. Poll workers and see if they find themselves upset by it or not. Don't just borrow offense on their behalf.

viraptor 6y ago
I feel like there are also some jobs is rather not be too public about. I got customers finding me and trying to reach out directly in much more mundane scenarios. If I worked at SpaceX in an engineering role, I think I'd be keeping it pretty private (not secret).

pfundstein 6y ago

Musk never claims credit for the work of his team. The burden of proof is on you. That said, I recall he has not only explicitly credited lead engineers by name but also discussed their technologies with them and given them stage time to discuss their tech with the audience. [see the automation day videos for example]

alextheparrot 6y ago

This was compared to a local run ISP that they connect to via a local tower (Farm silo). The ISP licenses spectrum from Verizon iirc.