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Sounds like a good fit. I recently got fiber to replace the Starlink I had before, but I had very few complaints compared to my other options. Latency still lef
by talldayo 2y ago
Sounds like a good fit. I recently got fiber to replace the Starlink I had before, but I had very few complaints compared to my other options. Latency still left a bit of room to be desired and you'd have to let the coffee brew while your Docker containers downloaded, but it was fine. Netflix worked, games worked, it's like... well, having internet.
I really wonder what the solution was before Starlink got rolled out. My first satellite provider was Hughesnet, a devilish business that would automatically charge you $15/gb over your 50gb monthly satellite limit. Well, shoutouts to the Navy crew that can watch YouTube now without getting shouted at by the regiment officer.
- wongarsu 2y ago> “Before SEA2, ship communications have relied upon Department of Defense (DOD) satellites for the past 30 years,” the NAVWAR piece explains. “These six satellites were roughly 22,300 miles away in geostationary orbit and provided a footprint on Earth the size of a hemisphere, resulting in slow data rates as the signal traveled up to the satellite and back down to its final destination.” So a similar setup to Hughesnet (which uses three geostationary satellites). Probably with less recent but more expensive satellites, but who knows.