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Reminds me of Elon Musk. I think it's a new category where a handful of people announce vapourware and billions flood in to back it with money but none of it ex

Reminds me of Elon Musk. I think it's a new category where a handful of people announce vapourware and billions flood in to back it with money but none of it exists in reality.

0x445442 4y ago
I don't know, reducing Trans-Atlantic network latency and bringing high speed internet to millions in currently un-served areas around the world while at the same time giving me an alternative to Cox seems worth while. Oh and being able to tweet that I think the benefit/cost ratio of mRNA vaccines is less than one for most people will be kind of cool as well.
- vba616 4y ago
  >bringing high speed internet to millions in currently un-served areas around the world Not that that's bad in itself, but in today's news: "Elon Musk personally rejected a Ukrainian request to extend his satellite internet service to Crimea" Doing things that nobody else can gives you power nobody else has.
  - noncoml 4y ago
    Alternative to Cox? I don’t think you have actually tried Starlink, otherwise you wouldn’t say that. For me, bandwidth is between 60Mbps and 100Mbps. Latency 50-100ms. But the worst is how unreliable it is. Muktisecond blackouts many times during the day and subsecond time-outs many times per hour. SSH over Starlink is pretty painful. In best case it’s an alternative to wireless service providers, but otherwise I would get a stable reliable 25Mbps DSL over Starlink any day.
    - coverj 4y ago
      Just in the interest of balance I am very happy with Starlink, I usually range between 90-120Mbps and 30-60ms latency. It can be a little patchy to play latency sensitive games on (guessing these are the sub seconds timeouts you mention), I swap to tethering my phone for that but day to day (zoom meetings, etc) I have found starlink to be a massive upgrade on the alternatives available in Australia. In 12~ months as a customer I think I've tethered my phone for a zoom call once.

Reminds me of Elon Musk. I think it's a new category where a handful of people announce vapourware and billions flood in to back it with money but none of it exists in reality.

0x445442 4y ago

I don't know, reducing Trans-Atlantic network latency and bringing high speed internet to millions in currently un-served areas around the world while at the same time giving me an alternative to Cox seems worth while. Oh and being able to tweet that I think the benefit/cost ratio of mRNA vaccines is less than one for most people will be kind of cool as well.

vba616 4y ago
>bringing high speed internet to millions in currently un-served areas around the world Not that that's bad in itself, but in today's news: "Elon Musk personally rejected a Ukrainian request to extend his satellite internet service to Crimea" Doing things that nobody else can gives you power nobody else has.
- noncoml 4y ago
  Alternative to Cox? I don’t think you have actually tried Starlink, otherwise you wouldn’t say that. For me, bandwidth is between 60Mbps and 100Mbps. Latency 50-100ms. But the worst is how unreliable it is. Muktisecond blackouts many times during the day and subsecond time-outs many times per hour. SSH over Starlink is pretty painful. In best case it’s an alternative to wireless service providers, but otherwise I would get a stable reliable 25Mbps DSL over Starlink any day.
  - coverj 4y ago
    Just in the interest of balance I am very happy with Starlink, I usually range between 90-120Mbps and 30-60ms latency. It can be a little patchy to play latency sensitive games on (guessing these are the sub seconds timeouts you mention), I swap to tethering my phone for that but day to day (zoom meetings, etc) I have found starlink to be a massive upgrade on the alternatives available in Australia. In 12~ months as a customer I think I've tethered my phone for a zoom call once.