Do you think this is going to be a better deal ultimately either in terms of price or quality of service?
Do you expect to get your internet service via satellite within 5 years or 10? Or is it mostly just for people who live out in the boonies where there is no other good option?
https://www.theverge.com/2018/3/29/1717 ... k-spectrum
I wonder if this would be world-wide? Would this be a way for people in China to bypass government censorship of the internet?
Satellite internet service
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Re: Satellite internet service
Here's they're application.
https://apps.fcc.gov/els/GetAtt.html?id=185534&x
It would be world-wide capable but probably not enabled.
https://apps.fcc.gov/els/GetAtt.html?id=185534&x
It would be world-wide capable but probably not enabled.
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Re: Satellite internet service
When I was working, a lot of my clients were out in the boonies where there was no other option. And a lot of my family are in that position too. A rather uniform complaint is that it is really slow and unreliable.
So until they fix that, I don't think it will ever be anything other than the last resort for people who can't get anything better.
So until they fix that, I don't think it will ever be anything other than the last resort for people who can't get anything better.
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This will pretty much fix that. The satellites will be in low earth orbit so ping time (latency) is going to be close to (or even less than) what a land-based ISP's provide (~10ms). You can expect speeds 1440 Mbps up and down on fastest tier. Even gaming will be fine.Nyarlathotep wrote:When I was working, a lot of my clients were out in the boonies where there was no other option. And a lot of my family are in that position too. A rather uniform complaint is that it is really slow and unreliable.
So until they fix that, I don't think it will ever be anything other than the last resort for people who can't get anything better.
There may be issues on very cloudy days.
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viewtopic.php?f=6&t=43681&p=819140&hili ... an#p819140Anaxagoras wrote:Would this be a way for people in China to bypass government censorship of the internet?
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Rf of any ilk sucks. Spend the money on fiber optics.
It's the only way to be sure.
It's the only way to be sure.
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Technically, of course, but any "landline" will be under local gubment control.sparks wrote:Rf of any ilk sucks. Spend the money on fiber optics.
It's the only way to be sure.
It's also an argument in the Fermi paradox discussion: we don't detect them as after a brief radio communication flare everything goes through cable/fiber, &c. (And low-power rf for things like phones.)
On our old (and rotten) planet, most if not all "world" radio emitters have been dismantled.
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Re: Satellite internet service
Far more optimistic than previous versions that assumed such transmissions would cease at around the 50 year mark due to nuclear annihilation.
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