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I have a fairly high degree of confidence that however they're doing the contention/time-slicing right now (very much a secret), they'll keep pace on satellite
by walrus01 6y ago
I have a fairly high degree of confidence that however they're doing the contention/time-slicing right now (very much a secret), they'll keep pace on satellite network density with the number of terminals active in a given geographical area.
Even if Starlink was only 20Mbps down and 4Mbps up, and you could do those sorts of speeds any time in the day, it would still be amazingly better for the consumer tier price ($95-140/mo) compared to a hughesnet or viasat type product.
- dogma1138 6y agoThe year is 2078 and night time is as bright as day due to the density of the Starlink satellite super cluster. Maybe that’s how Musk will solve global warming launch enough satellites to block a sufficient percentage of the illumination the earth receives.
- nickik 6y agoI hope you are joking, because if not you are totally misinformed. The sats are not detectable by human eye and are totally dark in the sky once in position. Even amateur astronomers would have a very hard time finding them. Maybe if you really look for them, you could potentially see them in twilight but you would be very unlikely to notice those even if there were 100k of them.
- dogma1138 6y agoThey are detectable I see them every few nights, and yes it was a joke...