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I stand corrected; I had entirely missed that! I'd misremembered and thought that reviews such as https://www.tomsguide.com/reviews/starlink https://www.tomsgu

by emn13 5y ago

I stand corrected; I had entirely missed that! I'd misremembered and thought that reviews such as https://www.tomsguide.com/reviews/starlink https://www.tomsguide.com/reviews/starlink were more recent; time flies ;-). The caveat here concerning economic viability still stands, even if it's not looking bad. Without insider knowledge concerning costs it's hard to say how many customers starlink minimally needs to sustain itself, but I get the impression that that number is going to be at least in the millions. Still, that might be just one order of magnitude to go, if they're lucky.

SECProto 5y ago
Interesting - I'd be curious when that article was written - it states Sept 2, 2021 at the top, but towards the end of the article it mentions speeds improving to 200Mbps "as of April 12". Their experience sounds quite likely for those early days, but not at all what my relatives experienced (they got theirs in late August 2021). I think their dish placement is also poor - the app basically showed my relatives that the roof was the only place with good enough sight of the sky (they have similar amounts of trees to what's in videos on that article) > The caveat here concerning economic viability still stands, even if it's not looking bad. Yeah, for sure - however much you trust Elon's internal messaging, he suggested it is minimally viable as-is, needs starship to be a real moneymaker [1] [1] https://spaceexplored.com/2021/11/29/spacex-raptor-crisis/ https://spaceexplored.com/2021/11/29/spacex-raptor-crisis/