Posted on 08/14/2020 2:26:32 PM PDT by srmanuel
Some early Speed Tests have been released by Starlink about their performance from beta testers..
It's not mind blowing but something that is very exciting to me....
this video is not from SpaceX or Starlink just a guy running a YouTube Channel...
I'm hungry for information and will continue passing it along..
I hope getting internet in the forest is worth screwing up groundbased astronomy for everyone.
It will be great if we do succeed to create a reliable space-based Internet.
You won’t even see them, early on, you could but Starlink and SpaceX have taken steps to alleviate the issue...
After Starlink, Amazon is starting up a competing service with FCC approval for several thousand LEO satellites...
It remains to be seen how well the entire network performs under load. Nevertheless, these results are nothing short of amazing. The real shocker is the very low latency. Local WISPs can hardly do better and mostly do worse.
Bkmk
I pay for stupid fast internet, but get turtle slow actual speeds. I threaten to downgrade, but fear I’ll end up going backwards.
As long as it isn’t Iridium Flares 2.0, it should be ok.
"Screwing up ground based astronomy" is a vast overstatement of the problem.
The satellites are only a problem while they are lit by the sun but the telescope is in darkness. Most of the night is not effected. This is not the death of ground based astronomy.
Plus there are major implications and uses for a World Wide Web that really is "Work Wide". It is a lot more than internet in the forest.
Will someone mention timings so a long video doesn’t need to be watched by everyone for the two sentences that matter?
The thread poster chose to screw us.
“The real shocker is the very low latency”
Musk promised 25-35 ms. What are they seeing?
The problem is every other company wants to get in the game and have their own constellations and then the foreign countries will want their own so they don’t have to rely on the US and then their companies will want a slice etc etc.
Nothing is sacred. They'll screw up everything. As it is now it's getting difficult to even obtain a 60 second exposure with some space junk photo bombing the image. And they have plans to put up thousands of pieces of more space junk.
It's like traveling down some scenic highway and seeing some gawdy billboards completely destroy the view.
Ping 94ms
Download 43.83 Mbps
Upload 17.61 Mbps
I’m watching TV so I scrolled until the screen changed from something other than some guy talking. Had it muted. The numbers are just past the 5:00 time.
Way better than our $50/mth service which gets 10Mbps on DSL. Next question will be; How much will it cost? Will it be allowed everywhere considering it will put a lot of small ISPs out of business if it’s cheap enough?
There is also competitor OneWeb. Airbus/Branson
The final test that was shown showed 21ms latency which if that holds is fantastic...
Like the video said, we do not know the conditions of the test but initial testing is fantastic for space based LEO satellite service..
The speeds of up and downloads are not great but I suspect it’s early and they are not really taxing the system, when they get to the point of up/down loading videos and 21ms latency holds that is a game changer for space based internet service...
Tech Ping
right now the SpaceX launches are putting 55-60 satellites at a time into orbit, but they have a heavy lift rocket in production that will increase that to 100s of satellites at a time which is a real game changer in advancing the service...
The OneWeb constellation goes up 34 at a shot.
Pretty close to that and sometimes better. Saw a 21 msec result in that mix. The question remains how well the network will do under load.
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