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I noticed a starlink terminal on the side of a building in SF yesterday near the bay bridge. I really wonder why they are using it. I work at a rural farm with
by TaylorAlexander 4y ago
I noticed a starlink terminal on the side of a building in SF yesterday near the bay bridge. I really wonder why they are using it. I work at a rural farm with no good internet options and we love our starlink, but I’d really have thought there’d be better options in SF.
- jonasdegendt 4y agoSome sort of redundancy, if I had to guess.
- usrusr 4y agoDoubling as a "we're state of the art" conversation piece if the antenna is sufficiently visible. As long as they are still a somewhat rare novelty, the morale effect alone could be worth the subscription. SpaceX innovation halo effect.
- Arnt 4y agoThere are lots of geographically tiny problems in cities. One of the buildings next to where I live can get fiber but this one can't. Various apartments in this building have fine connectivity but now a critical cable duct is full and someone may be told that "you can't get faster than 16Mbps, sorry" even if both neighbours on the same floor have 100Mbps, and that answer makes sense.