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Once the birds are in orbit, satellite internet is vastly superior to fiber in speed of deployment. Fiber requires custom engineering at the city block level a
by Polizeiposaune 3mo ago
Once the birds are in orbit, satellite internet is vastly superior to fiber in speed of deployment.
Fiber requires custom engineering at the city block level and a single rotten utility pole can block deployment.
I say this as someone who waited for fiber and is happily using it now.
- uxhacker 3mo agoSo in Poland with Starlink I easily get 120 mbp/s but often in Kenya which I visit the maximum speed is just 10 mbp/s. Often the local 5g network is faster. The reason I believe that this is the case is dues to congestion on the Starlink network in Kenya. Ie. too many users in Kenya.
- Tepix 3mo agoHis post was about speed of deployment, not internet speed.
- underlipton 3mo agoOnly in Kenya.
- parineum 3mo agoI suspect that has a lot to do with still needing a ground station in the same hex as the signal. Presumably, there's limited bandwidth at wherever that ground station is. Once the satellites are linked, I bet that improves.