Posted on 11/01/2020 11:02:50 PM PST by Enlightened1
Could rural Montana be the next Silicon Valley? Check internet speed off your list of reasons why not.
Even though Elon Musk’s SpaceX says its expanded “Better Than Nothing” test is still a beta version of Starlink’s eventual capabilities, at least one early Starlink internet service customer says he is getting better than expected speed. Starlink says it should give you between “50 and 150 MB/s with 20-40 milliseconds of latency.” Starlink customer “FourthEchelon19” is getting 161 megabits/second download and 23 megabits/second upload speed.
In rural Montana.
That’s good enough to stream 4K YouTube videos with zero buffering. And it’s making people with hard-wired “high-speed” internet jealous.
“I love how you're getting a better speed from f-ing space than I am with a hardline connection from Spectrum at 80 dollars a month,” one respondent says on Reddit.
In fact, according to the speed test by Ookla, that’s faster than 95% of the United States ... and Starlink costs just $99/month. That’s a little hard to fathom given that Starlink is bouncing signals to orbit before returning them down to earth. While Starlink satellites are in “low-earth orbit,” that’s still 342 miles or 550 kilometers above the planet’s surface.
Whether those speeds will stay as high as thousands of others join the service is a good question, but the Starlink satellite constellation is also only partial right now, with something like 800 currently in operation, and thousands yet to come. Confirmed end-user speeds are commonly from 60 megabits/second to well over 100 in an unofficial listing.
The best, however, is 203.74 megabits/second with only 18 milliseconds latency.
There are other questions, of course.
(Excerpt) Read more at forbes.com ...
Starlink, Space X, Amazon, Apple and Google are some of the companies.
Excuse me Starlink and Space X are one in the same.
Here is a video about it.
Of course,the skies are always clear in Montana. ;)
Whats it like when its raining and overcast? I’d loose Direct TV in a heartbeat.
I have Direct TV and have had such for a couple decades, was just going to say....all good till a hard rain, an electrical storm, etc.
Here’s an article on rain fade and how it may affect Starlink:
https://vividcomm.com/2020/09/06/starlink-rain-fade-will-it-work/
Starlink is intended for customers who have no Internet or are using geosynchronous satellite Internet. It will be a big improvement regardless of rain fade.
I am supposed to have fiber optic in my neighborhood and there are times I get 10mbps. At 4am. I pay Spectrum $70 a month for that blazing speed.
I have Tmobile home Internet on the way, I’ll see how that works.
Those speeds sure better be scalable. 100MB/s seems like a lot now but 10 years from now won’t be enough and then what will become of the constellation?
Bookmarking
Sure, ONE user gets those speeds. 100,000 users will be sharing the same pipe.
Noooo!
Please don’t turn beautiful, WILD Montana into another Silicon Valley, slap full of libtards!
Just hire the cowboys and teach them how to code........
5G is a cellular radio protocol. One can use a TCP/IP connection over 5G cellular. But I betcha that satellite link will not be a 5G connection. There’s no need.
Tech Ping
Starlink?
SKYNet?
This might be great for small scale operators, but big league silicon valley enterprises require a lot of fat pipes operating simultaneously. For true DR (disaster recovery), you also need alternative pipelines in case the primary goes down. I don’t think Starlink by itself would be enough for a large datacenter, at least not out of the gate.
I’ve seen photos of 5G phones running SPEEDTEST and getting up to 2 gig DL speed - in major metro cities.
Not 100% certain but the low orbits should help a LOT. I think heavy storms may impact speed a bit but FM radio works in storms with nary a hiccup. DTV sats are about 22,000 miles up. Musk’s toys are only about 350 miles up.
Sure, ONE user gets those speeds. 100,000 users will be sharing the same pipe.
You are wrong.
The constellation will need ongoing updates anyway. Right now they’re just trying to achieve “better than nothing”; next is laser-routing data between satellites, with more upgrades to come. This isn’t a one shot system.
Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.