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Yeah but if you need Internet failover, cell phone towers are likely flooded. Starlink will be much more available (probably).
by mholt 7mo ago
Yeah but if you need Internet failover, cell phone towers are likely flooded. Starlink will be much more available (probably).
- baby_souffle 7mo agoThis too depends on which POP/ground station you're landing at. Maybe less so once the majority of starling satellites are capable of laser communications to route your traffic down to a less saturated ground station.
- rlt 7mo agoThe vast majority of Starlink satellites do have laser interconnect now. They started launching them in 2021 or 2022 I believe.
- madaxe_again 7mo agoOr they’re just offline, because their backup batteries only last a few hours, and the gensets for the backhaul have run out of diesel. Iberian blackout last year, I didn’t even know it had happened until I went to pick the kid up from school - just another day at the home office.