Posted on 09/03/2020 11:10:07 AM PDT by srmanuel
So this morning I watched a webcast of the latest SpaceX Starlink launch from Cape Canaveral, some times I can see the rockets from my house....and I'm well over 100 miles away.....
It's pretty cool to watch in less than 20 minutes you get to see the launch, first stage separation, the landing of the first stage booster on the barge at sea and then the release of the 60 satellites....
Two more launches are scheduled by late September or early October, which will put them over 800 satellites in orbit....
I would be happy with 100mb download speed and sub 30ms latency...
The real exciting thing is the space laser communication between satellites without a ground base station will dramatically add to the throughput of the network....plus we are very early in the network's rollout....
Hi-def streaming porn ... in space.
I live in a very rural area, up against the foothills of the Cascade Mountains. Not much in the way of services, 12 miles from the nearest small town.
100Mbs would sure beat my current 350Kbs average download speed.
“I would be happy with 100mb download speed and sub 30ms latency... “
Design parameter. For a single test device and without interference.
Of course, how many in the rural reaches of the world would complain about 20mbs download and 90ms latency?
Like...nobody.
Folks I’ve been in the network business for over 40 years. I can still remember when major comms trunk lines were 1.5mbs. Ethernet at 10mbs shared among 30 people was considered nearly infinite bandwidth.
And there was no fiber.
In testing for a major corporation I proved 10mbs dedicated was sufficient for 3 simultaneous TV presentations.
Is that Mega BYTES per second or Mega BITS per second?................
And 10-20mbs with ~ 90ms is what the early results on the existing constellation is showing. At least according to beta testers talking about it...
Not what the marketing BS has been blaring, but certainly marketable.
With all the video conferencing going on now, latency has far more importance then it did when the net was 95% download dominant.
Uplink speeds will be the principal constraint.
Still, potentially revolutionary.
Again.
I get such a kick outa seeing that booster land on the drone ship.
But they need an aux camera to show the sats actually being deployed instead of just viewing the stack.
And did they anti-reflect coat these new sats like they said they would be doing?
Rookie, I remember when 1.5 meg T1 circuits were space age...9600 baud was the norm of the day...
I used a 300 baud acoustic coupler for awhile...
I worked at a Cisco TAC and took hundreds of Frame Relay calls plus ISDN BRI circuits that were 128kb.....Small consultants would sell it all over the country and then didn’t know how to install it, so they would call the TAC immediately to get us to install it while they input the commands....until I could get into it remotely and finish it for them...
I live in a very rural area, up against the foothills of the Cascade Mountains. Not much in the way of services, 12 miles from the nearest small town.
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Starlink is intended for people like you.
Bits...
768k T1 lines used to sell for > $1500/month
Time marches on.
Will this improve my dial-up service?
I remember 110 baud teletype, and was ecstatic with 300 baud terminal ‘73
Every country in the world will hack the hell outta that system, just saying.
Last Sunday SpaceX did the first polar launch from Cape Canaveral in over 50 years. Today they did another Starlink launch, and a hop of another Starship fuel tank in Texas.
In space, no one can hear you moan...
Yes, it will make it less crowded...............
The capability to connect to the internet from rural areas will further erode the ability of Demonrat cities to hold people and businesses hostage.
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