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 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?
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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!
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.
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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.
Oh sure, so all those dental floss tycoons can have fast Internet.
Its been several years since I played online games with my kids such COD. If I remember correctly if your latency got much above 10 to 15 ms game play suffered for everyone in your game. (Teammates and opponents) the dreaded “lag”... Has that changed? Is 20 to 80 ms now acceptable?
I live in Silicon Valley and in most parts of it we’re stuck with Comcast.
Which SUCKS.
They all stink and are 2-3x overpriced.
Pre-pandemic my cable co advertised speeds up to 150 Mbps for my tier.
Most times, however, it would hover around 10 to 30 Mbps and sink to less than 5 Mpbs on weekends.
They seemed to have lifted those speed bottlenecks since the pandemic.
Starlink’s $99 is a tad pricey to compete with cable, but they are certainly worth considering. IIRC, there is an initial outlay of around $500 for equipment and wiring in addition to the $99/monthly.
All those satellites will ruin the sky for anyone photographing the stars. It will be one long line of bright lights.
Would this make me not suck at World of Tanks?