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SpaceX Preps 'Ruggedized' Starlink Dish for Cars, Boats, and Planes – PCMag

16 points by mrfusion 5y ago

tiahura 5y ago
Random South Pacific atoll, here I come!
- voakbasda 5y ago
  Too bad they can’t focus on finishing deploying their network everywhere first. At this rate there will be mobile users tooling around the country before I receive my fixed service here. Not cool, Starlink. I thought the point of this service was to deliver bandwith to rural customers that have no other options. Portable dishes will be scooped up by urban dwellers as a luxury and clog the limited airwaves, when I and millions of others are still stuck with speeds that have not been considered “broadband” for over a decade.
  - mensetmanusman 5y ago
    Can’t tell if this is sarcasm, SpaceX has been launching satellites faster than any organization in human history. They have to deploy 40k for the world, and it will take some time to do this. Superheavy can help make this real with improved satellite deploy bandwidth.
    - voakbasda 5y ago
      Not sarcasm, actually disappointed. Don’t get me wrong. I think they absolutely are doing stunning work. Their progress has been amazing, and I am a huge fan. I eagerly await everything that comes next from these companies. Hell, I would apply to work with them, if I thought there was a chance that they hired remote workers. I very much doubt that they need to offer such flexibility. Indeed, I am only disappointed because I have such high hope for using their system myself. This move seems to dilute their ability to serve the people that live in remote areas that need faster service. A mobile unit opens the door for urbanites to buy up the currently limited supply of bandwidth, whereas fixed ground stations with geofencing ensures rural use. Of course, I can see rugged dishes being mounted on community-centric internet access vans that roam from remote village to village, providing service in areas where each village cannot afford its own dish. However, Starlink likely will not screen any of their customers on such merits. If they did, I would have expressed my own intent to use this bandwidth to host an outdoorsy software camp for kids on my farm/forest property.
      - mensetmanusman 5y ago
        Another way to think of it is that the more pull there is for the system from everyone, the better it is going to get, because the financing is a win-win-win. It’s possible that the huge thrust of energy towards super heavy is initially to make a bunch of money on starlink… The economics usually improves with the more people you can serve.

16 points by mrfusion 5y ago

tiahura 5y ago

Random South Pacific atoll, here I come!

voakbasda 5y ago
Too bad they can’t focus on finishing deploying their network everywhere first. At this rate there will be mobile users tooling around the country before I receive my fixed service here. Not cool, Starlink. I thought the point of this service was to deliver bandwith to rural customers that have no other options. Portable dishes will be scooped up by urban dwellers as a luxury and clog the limited airwaves, when I and millions of others are still stuck with speeds that have not been considered “broadband” for over a decade.
- mensetmanusman 5y ago
  Can’t tell if this is sarcasm, SpaceX has been launching satellites faster than any organization in human history. They have to deploy 40k for the world, and it will take some time to do this. Superheavy can help make this real with improved satellite deploy bandwidth.
  - voakbasda 5y ago
    Not sarcasm, actually disappointed. Don’t get me wrong. I think they absolutely are doing stunning work. Their progress has been amazing, and I am a huge fan. I eagerly await everything that comes next from these companies. Hell, I would apply to work with them, if I thought there was a chance that they hired remote workers. I very much doubt that they need to offer such flexibility. Indeed, I am only disappointed because I have such high hope for using their system myself. This move seems to dilute their ability to serve the people that live in remote areas that need faster service. A mobile unit opens the door for urbanites to buy up the currently limited supply of bandwidth, whereas fixed ground stations with geofencing ensures rural use. Of course, I can see rugged dishes being mounted on community-centric internet access vans that roam from remote village to village, providing service in areas where each village cannot afford its own dish. However, Starlink likely will not screen any of their customers on such merits. If they did, I would have expressed my own intent to use this bandwidth to host an outdoorsy software camp for kids on my farm/forest property.
    - mensetmanusman 5y ago
      Another way to think of it is that the more pull there is for the system from everyone, the better it is going to get, because the financing is a win-win-win. It’s possible that the huge thrust of energy towards super heavy is initially to make a bunch of money on starlink… The economics usually improves with the more people you can serve.