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> there's a saturation point where they can't add more satellites. Which they are not even close to yet. Starship is about launching the suckers in bulk.
by chuckadams 2y ago
> there's a saturation point where they can't add more satellites.
Which they are not even close to yet. Starship is about launching the suckers in bulk.
- philjohn 2y agoI didn't even get onto the power requirements for end user equipment - according to Jeff Geerling, it looks like about 80-90 watts. My FTTP ONT is using less than 2. That's 788kWh per year ((90 * 24 * 365) / 1000) and at 25p per kWh that's an extra £197.10 of energy usage per year. Compared to £4.38 for my FTTP ONT. It's cool tech, no doubt, but it's not a replacement for a fibre connection by any stretch of the imagination, and so the positing that it'll be the, or one of the, bigget ISP's in the world seems off base, most likely by an order of magnitude or more.