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Surprisingly, the heating element built in appears to be pretty solid, or at least that's been the responses on /r/starlink. You're definitely right that peopl
by ganoushoreilly 5y ago
Surprisingly, the heating element built in appears to be pretty solid, or at least that's been the responses on /r/starlink.
You're definitely right that people are hating on it. Most of the people I know in real life that knocked it have access to land based internet. Once you get out into rural areas where 4g is the basis for your internet, it's amazing.
- swiley 5y agoAnd it's not like 4g hotspots and old cell phones don't overheat either.
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- jazzyjackson 5y agoYes, my iPhone went into thermal shutdown sitting by the pool on a 90 degree day but I don’t see a hacker news discussion on it…
- AngryData 5y agoYour iphones primary environment isn't outside under the sun for half of every day of the year though either.
- HarryHirsch 5y agoI have yet to see cellphone towers shut down because the summer is too hot.
- swiley 5y agoI have yet to hear about the starlink spacecraft going into thermal shutdown in Arizona.
- mahkeiro 5y agoYou should work in network operation. I have seen BS go down for so many reasons…..
- HarryHirsch 5y agoHeh. But whatever it was, the impact on the end user was low. When I lived in Miami there would be cellphone trouble on weekend nights, never in the midday heat!
- ClumsyPilot 5y agoYou get an actual 4g router, not a phone, and they actually worknwell
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- alisonkisk 5y agoIt's far easier to build a heating unit than a cooling unit. Thermodynamics FTW
- m4rtink 5y agoWell, in general cooling something down is much more complicated than heating it up. For one you need a sophisticated reverse heat engine, for the other a piece of wire with high enough resistance.
- catblast01 5y ago> For one you need a sophisticated reverse heat engine This is a very obtuse way of saying “refrigerator”, which is a type of heat pump.. a technology over a hundred years old. The simplest refrigerators/heat pumps are pretty simple — https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Absorption_refrigerator https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Absorption_refrigerator
- azernik 5y agoThat's a subsystem with three major sections, a working fluid, and its own heat rejection requirements. A resistive heater contains two parts - a properly placed wire and a switch.
- catblast01 5y agoStill say “sophisticated reverse heat engine” is a needlessly verbose way of saying refrigerator or heat pump. Also how sophisticated is something that is mass produced for devices sold under $100 in every big box retailer.
- mschuster91 5y agoA refrigerator for a kitchen has drastically different constraints. The outside temp will always be something between 15-30 °C, the inside temperature will usually stay relatively constant unless you dump hot stuff in there. Cooling for active outdoor technology has extremely variable outside temperatures (basically anything from -20 to 60 °C, or more if you take direct sunshine into account) and a constant generation of heat to be taken away.
- m4rtink 5y ago
- kortex 5y agoMany of these folks are used to internet going out because the wind is blowing too hard, or it's raining, or snowing, or a cow is stepping on the fiber link. https://www.datacenterdynamics.com/en/news/how-cows-caused-small-google-network-outage/ https://www.datacenterdynamics.com/en/news/how-cows-caused-s...
- casi 5y agoPeople are always surprised when I describe how bad the internet connection I have is here in the UK. 3meg down 0.2 up. If it rains or is too windy the connection dies. I’ve spoke to bt and openreach hundreds of times but it never gets any better. I’m the last house on the end of a copper line and there is no interest in fixing it. Four years ago the village was supposed to get fibre, recently “delayed” again. I rely on the 3G signal, which isn’t much better tbh. My Starlink arrives next week :) I’m so exited to be able to finally download some photos I put on google drive a couple of years ago.
- BoxOfRain 5y agoYeah, British internet can be fairly inconsistent. I'm in a rural-ish area and can get 100 megs down on a fibre-to-the-house connection, but when I lived in an actual town I would be lucky to get 2 megs down on a good day. I literally ended up doing everything over 4G back then because the fixed internet connection was just abysmally bad and Openreach never cared enough to fix it.