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This is a really poor way to compare. even with cross-links about 30% of their bandwidth is useable in the best case. starlink has no way of increasing capacity
by shaklee3 4y ago
This is a really poor way to compare. even with cross-links about 30% of their bandwidth is useable in the best case. starlink has no way of increasing capacity to their heaviest demand areas besides launching thousands more satellites. fiber is much, much, much more efficient.
- Robotbeat 4y agoI consider about 20% of the aggregate bandwidth to be usable (the land area vs total area of the Earth), but in special cases like Hawaii, there’s potential a huge amount of bandwidth since Hawaiians can have access to some of this 80% otherwise-unused portion.
- shaklee3 4y agoSure, but the problem is that the places you might have high bandwidth might already have good access to internet. Hawaii in general has very good internet already, so asking them to pay a premium for satellite internet isn't always a good trade.
- Robotbeat 4y agoThat’s not necessarily the case. Hawaii has limited bandwidth and higher latency.