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In 2019 SpaceX should start deploying their satellite constellation... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SpaceX_satellite_constellation
Round trip to a satellite will never rival fiber. Especially the way modern web apps are built inefficiently
I just loaded this article on my mobile device. An ad on the website triggered with auto playing audio that stopped background media playback of my device. I class these type of ads as a type of vermin, and generally avoid any website that contains them. Why should I trust an organisation that chooses to run user hostile ads on their site line this to make a better internet?
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Apologies, muninetworks.org is the true website. I've been reading way too much about FTTH obviously and partially substituted the website name :)
I just loaded this article on my mobile device. An ad on the website triggered with auto playing audio that stopped background media playback of my device. I class these type of ads as a type of vermin, and generally avoid any website that contains them. Why should I trust an organisation that chooses to run user hostile ads on their site line this to make a better internet?
All being said, yeah that sounds horrible, and you probably shouldn't trust them as they are a for profit, but that's not an argument as to whether they are wrong or not.
In 2019 SpaceX should start deploying their satellite constellation... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SpaceX_satellite_constellation
Round trip to a satellite will never rival fiber. Especially the way modern web apps are built inefficiently
There is a huge difference in latency between existing satellite internet services and what spacex is looking to launch.
[0]: https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2016/11/space...
All major infrastructure such as roads, power, communications etc needs to be owned and run by government upon which is then a level playing field on which free enterprise can then compete. When you have any major infrastructure essential to running a business in private hands you no longer have a democracy or free enterprise.
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Round trip to a satellite will never rival fiber. Especially the way modern web apps are built inefficiently
Could you expand on this? Do you think latency is the limiting factor for a LEO network?
36000 km / speed of light = .12 seconds
So thats a ping of 240, minimum. That's assuming everything else in the system happened instantaneously.
If you can however manage to solve the whole aiming at a moving target 360 kilometers away then maybe you could do a LEO network, and yeah the ping would be closer to 1.2 assuming again literally everything was instantaneous.
MuniFiber.com. Towns are slowly rolling their own fiber to the home. This is one answer to breaking cable monopolies. edit: Apologies, muninetworks.org is the true website. I've been reading way too much about FTTH obviously and partially substituted the website name :)
I just loaded this article on my mobile device. An ad on the website triggered with auto playing audio that stopped background media playback of my device. I class these type of ads as a type of vermin, and generally avoid any website that contains them. Why should I trust an organisation that chooses to run user hostile ads on their site line this to make a better internet?
This is a literal ad hominem fallacy. Whether someone is honest or good doesn't have any bearing on any individual statement's veracity. A statement is true or false regardless of who says it. Additionally the article was written by an author who is not responsible for the advertisements, or really any actions of this establishment which are entirely outside of their control. All being said, yeah that sounds horrible…
This is rather a problem with the author who is benefiting from the ad-driven Internet while preaching for something else. It's like a weapons reseller advocating for peace.
In 2019 SpaceX should start deploying their satellite constellation... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SpaceX_satellite_constellation
Round trip to a satellite will never rival fiber. Especially the way modern web apps are built inefficiently
Granted leo satellites are 1200mi away but it's worth remembering that.