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SpaceX begins $99 preorders for Starlink satellite internet service
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he's not it's about the defamation lawsuit see this thread for the origin of that meme
Elon Musk wins Twitter defamation trial brought by caver Vernon Unsworth
https://www.theverge.com/2019/12/6/20998821/elon-musk-wins-loses-twitter-defamation-trial-testimony-caver-vernon-unsworth-cave-rescue oh boy
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Totally forgot about that fiasco. Add it to the pile of reasons he sucks ass.he's not it's about the defamation lawsuit which he won see this thread
Elon Musk wins Twitter defamation trial brought by caver Vernon Unsworth
https://www.theverge.com/2019/12/6/20998821/elon-musk-wins-loses-twitter-defamation-trial-testimony-caver-vernon-unsworth-cave-rescue oh boy
LOL! T-Mo's baseline CELL service isn't available in rural areas, much less their home solution.
Gbps speeds with 10-20ms of latency is shit tier. With no data caps and with global coverage. Right.
Has anyone with access to this tried finding jitter numbers yet? Really curious how consistent the connection is going to be.
The thought of a corporation roughly tripling the number of satellites in orbit gives me Kessler syndrome worries.
Damn, people really are willing to overpay for convenience aren't they lol. $500 for the equipment and $99/month. Eek. Sucks that this is a solution. Just goes to show how shitty of a situation we're in when this is considered acceptable.
And here I am continuing to hold out hope that $50/mo for 1Gb is around the corner.
And here I am continuing to hold out hope that $50/mo for 1Gb is around the corner.
My Dad currently pays $100 per month for Hughes net which lets you watch 360p Youtube videos on a Good day.
But $99/month USD is a lot to ask for many citizens in developing countries, so this can't really be for them.
More than likely. Just sucks that this country's internet infrastructure is so bad that these people have to pay so much for shitty internet that disappears when it rains or gets cloudy.
And is being offered by a documented pedo guy.
i am in this only for the IPO as this is some amazing stuff they are aiming for. helps LOTS of people.
At Starlink's speed you could split it 10 ways or more and still have decent internet. Have a rural village set up a wifi spot or something.
Right now the availability is limited to mostly 1st World Countries due to the way deployment is being done. They are working from the North Pole South.
They will offer regional pricing as they have made clear they intend to offer Internet to the entire planet.
AT&T promised where I lived fiber in a few years, but then decided you're switching to point install 4G with a low cap instead. Thankfully cable and point install 4G is an option here but this is so much better than current satellite plans in the states
I heard about this earlier today. I'm definitely not in their target market, but it's good news for people who already pay almost $100 for awful service.
End goal when the full network is deployed is gigabit internet so if they can achieve their end goal it will be a threat to all ISPs
This. Any concerns about prices don't get it or are disingenuous. You can easily split one connection for multiple homes if they are close and then it's possible even over longer distances. Most people wouldn't need the full bandwidth.
People should look at the pricing for Rural Alaska before complaining about Starlink's price and speed. Take a peek at Cold bay's options.
Just because they added Sprint's towers to their network didn't magically make their rural coverage better. Sprint's rural coverage sucked too. I know this because I've had two stints with T-Mo in the past two years because I WANT to like them, but when I got to visit my folks in the sticks, I don't have a functioning phone. People like my parents are exactly the people we are talking about Starlink serving.
I highly doubt a country with censored internet would allow the import of these things and I don't think Starlink is open sourcing their linking tech or opening their bandwidth to everyone with a dish or however it works.
I wouldn't be surprised to see a black market for the hardware though. And here in Australia we have some censoring of the internet with piracy sites, and I doubt our gov will do much to prevent this here.
For sure, it will be like "stealing" your neighbor's WiFi or TV signal.
FWIW, at least on paper, the satellites are so small that their impact profile SHOULDN'T be terribly harmful to other objects should they malfunction and break orbit and are designed to burn up in early re-entry.
But I feel you. It's not like you can test for Kessler Syndrome.
ISPs step up fight against SpaceX, tell FCC that Starlink will be too slow
arstechnica.com
ISPs step up fight against SpaceX, tell FCC that Starlink will be too slow
SpaceX's FCC broadband funding faces more opposition from telco trade groups.
arstechnica.com
jfc
Hopefully the arrival of Starlink gives these scummy bloodsuckers sleepless nights.
ISPs step up fight against SpaceX, tell FCC that Starlink will be too slow
ISPs step up fight against SpaceX, tell FCC that Starlink will be too slow
SpaceX's FCC broadband funding faces more opposition from telco trade groups.
Even if the FCC went stupid on this, just like if the CRTC did as well, the rest of the world would ultimately go forward and eventually public and political pressure would force their hands.
Corrupt organizations can't stifle progress as easily when it comes to technological innovations anymore.
That's how you know ISPs are shitting themselves. The legal jumps begin. Its already providing speeds like 2-3 times the average high speed DSL line while only partially complete. Will it achieve the promised 1Gigabit with sub 20 ms latency Musk has talked about? Maybe not but it will certainly be more than fast enough to qualify as High Speed Broadband.
I remember when Google was still coming to my town. Cox shit themselves and got really aggressive with speed boosts etc. then went to the courts to fight google until google ended its expansion and then Cox turned to complete shitheads
I remember when Google was still coming to my town. Cox shit themselves and got really aggressive with speed boosts etc. then went to the courts to fight google until google ended its expansion and then Cox turned to complete shitheads
No data caps sounds interesting. My mom just moved to Georgia and she doesn't get any major internet services there. The previous owner is keeping the DSL in his name because they're phasing out the tech and won't allow new customers. This would be amazing for around the same price she's paying for that DSL 5mbps.
This is terrible, and it's going to cause so much space junk too. It's not even better than 4g. I get that some countries have terrible infrastructure, but fixing that should be (I'm saying should, not is) be cheaper and easier than sending thousands of satelites up into the sky
LTT explains in this video that once the satellite has an end of life cycle it burns up on the admosfeer.
That's something but that just means that it's also a waste of resources and rare minerals. And if they are keeping the same amount up there, a ton of astronomers have talked about how it's going to obscure interrupt.
I know there are regulations in place to lessen the chances of Kessler syndrome but corporations will cut corners. Considering NASA has made mistakes and occasionally deadly fuckups, the thought of a corporation putting thousands of satellites into orbit is concerning.
Know what's great about up here? The satellite options, that are pretty objectively terrible, that everyone complains about, are often not available up here at all. Since a geostationary satellite orbits around the earths equator, a satellite dish in Alaska that wants to lock onto any signal from a geostationary satellite basically has to point at the horizon. So if you have any trees, or God forbid hills around you, it's basically impossible to get a signal.
I'm currently 10 miles from a "city"with gigabit fiber (for close to $200 a month), literally no ISP services the house I'm living in, and I could buy a house in New York for what I've been quoted to get one out here.
Starlink will add pole-orbiting satellites that will communicate with one another using lasers. So with time it will work even in the north and south pole.
If you compare it to an urban area with actual competition in terms of internet service providers, these prices are bad even by US standards, i live in Denmark and pay about $50 for a 200/200 fiber connection with ultra low latency, for $80 i could get 1000/1000, so this service is not interesting to me with my current living situation.
The price is however pretty good for people who don't have access to decent internet connectivity or is at the mercy of a single service provider price gauging a poor connection because they are the only provider operating in that area, to those people the $99 asking price of Starlink is actually pretty decent for the service they can provide.
If the choice is paying $99 for decent internet or dialup/no service, i would happily pay for that service if it works well enough.
Satellite broadband is fairly cheap here in France, but the data caps are really harsh.
Just checked and I think to get above about 20Mb with about 50GB of download you're getting into these kinds of prices. 70€ or so.
However I've found 4G coverage pretty great here, even in the Normandy countryside. In fact the speeds are faster than I had in Ealing, and my friend who lives in Islington gets 17Mb with his 4G.
The only thing that holds 4G back for me is the 75cm thick stone walls on the house.
Just checked and I think to get above about 20Mb with about 50GB of download you're getting into these kinds of prices. 70€ or so.
However I've found 4G coverage pretty great here, even in the Normandy countryside. In fact the speeds are faster than I had in Ealing, and my friend who lives in Islington gets 17Mb with his 4G.
The only thing that holds 4G back for me is the 75cm thick stone walls on the house.