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Fibre can go about 100 km without a repeater which in the grand scheme of things isn’t very far. Keep in mind that Starlink works best with a fibre base station
by jagger27 3y ago
Fibre can go about 100 km without a repeater which in the grand scheme of things isn’t very far. Keep in mind that Starlink works best with a fibre base station inside of the coverage cone. A few of those stations in northern Quebec built next to existing cell towers gets you a lot of connectivity for cheap.
- cma 3y agoSeems like a repeater could be powered just from induction with neighboring powerline, or solar+battery.
- ftth_finland 3y agoSubsea cables have built-in repeaters and they span thousands of miles. On land it’s usually easier and cheaper to use huts with power.
- ftth_finland 3y agoYou can do 400 km with unrepeated systems. However, very seldom do you need or want to go that far on land since very, very few places worth connecting are more than 400 km from somewhere else. Repeatered systems can go thousands of miles and the repeater sites are handy for local breakout.