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Partly that , partly also to make sure there is no abuse to bypass waitlists in a cell. There is a limit per cell how many customers can be serviced. Satellit
by manquer 4y ago
Partly that , partly also to make sure there is no abuse to bypass waitlists in a cell.
There is a limit per cell how many customers can be serviced. Satellites can only handle so many connections .
However humans tend to concentrate in few areas and those areas will have higher demand.
If they allow us to buy in a light demand area and use in roaming in a heavy demand area constantly with same network quality, it would become a problem, people would do that to bypass waitlists
To solve that they are allowing roaming but giving traffic/QoS preference to local users over roaming users
- hedora 4y agoAny idea what sort of degradation occurs when a cell is ridiculously (like 10x) over capacity? I wonder if it will lose carrrier entirely, or just FIFO / round robing the oversaturated connections. I just bought one to bypass the waitlist. The magic number for them to beat is worst case 5mbit down, 3 up and 66ms, <1TB cap. Our current internet is as expensive as these starlink plans. The waitlist here is 2+ years, and this area is full of rural nerds. I'd guess they just got 1000 "RV" orders from my county.
- manquer 4y agoThere maybe hard limits depending on solar panels power available and the radio setup on the satellites. My guess the tolerance is lot lesser than 10:1 . SpaceX likely did some load tests before opening up roaming, so must be confident to some extent. They are also adding satellites every week so capacity is likely also improving. The dish manufacturing constraints and base stations could be other limiting factors for duration of waitlists