We don't have Mediacom around here...............
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....
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Mediacom
Go to their web site and sign up to beta test. Not saying you’d get to, but you sound like you’re a target demographic.
A 1,500 satellite constellation for the military perhaps? Remember an AF test months back running better than 600 mbps on the StarLink system of the time.
“Global Lightning” is the program designation.
I would like to move to Concrete, WA. But I still need high speed internet. Hopefully this or 5G will fit the bill.
We don't have Mediacom around here...............
We really are in the Space Age -- I barely exhibit interest in the clockwork-like SpaceX launches and many times the booster landings. There are a bunch of Starlink-related vids on YT, information directly or indirectly from people who have been testing the system. Eventually there will be, hmm, I forget -- 72,000? satellites.
Sounds like something one of those old 007 Movie “take over the world” Movie Characters would be doing right under the Government’s nose.
What if those Satellites aren’t what we think they are. LOL
Reminds me of Moonraker.
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