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> I feel that Starlink will drastically alter this market and open up so much more remote working environments You're not allowed to use Starlink in other loca
by al_chemist 6y ago
> I feel that Starlink will drastically alter this market and open up so much more remote working environments
You're not allowed to use Starlink in other location than you ordered. It's not for nomads.
https://www.starlink.com/legal/terms-of-service-preorder https://www.starlink.com/legal/terms-of-service-preorder
6.3 You acknowledge that you are only authorized to access Services at the location identified on your Order, and you will not divert the Starlink Kit or Services to any other locations
- trevor-e 6y agoYes, currently, but I don't think anyone expects this to be their policy in the future.
- simias 6y agoWhat makes you say that? I haven't followed StarLink very closely but it seems to me that in order to be competitive and maximize profits it would be extremely beneficial for them to have regional pricing policies.
- iso1210 6y agoThey've said they want to allow moving dishes What the price options looks like in 12-24 months time is anyones guess. Personally I'd love to buy 250 dishes (at full price, $2k each or whatever), but skip the monthly charge (or have some sort of pool agreement)
- samatman 6y agoAssigning a price to a given (large) region is the easy part. The hard part is cache invalidation! For a stationary Starlink dish, every satellite knows which cell a given dish is in, and they cooperate to route packets to that cell when they can. For a mobile Starlink dish, they have to be able to invalidate that cache every time it moves, instead of having a cushion of a few hours for the occasional move. It can be done, but I don't blame them for punting on that problem for awhile.