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Elon Musk tweets using SpaceX’s Starlink satellite internet

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Re: Elon Musk tweets using SpaceX’s Starlink satellite internet

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Post by jniedrauer »

I'm really excited about this technology for selfish reasons. I love disconnecting and spending time in remote wildernesses. But paradoxically, being disconnected from technology gives me a lot of anxiety about technology. Working on devops roles over the last decade, I've almost never had a time when I can just forget about it all. Even when I'm not on call, and no matter how well I try to document things, I'm often the one with the answers. When things break, I need to be able to step in. Being able to go off the grid, while still being able to step in when SHTF, would increase my quality of life significantly.

Re: Elon Musk tweets using SpaceX’s Starlink satellite internet

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Post by maxander »

nickik wrote: post #3
LinuxBender wrote: post #2

Has a pentest been performed on this network? How does one enter into an early beta of it?

They just launched the first couple satillites. Its all internal testing on non-finished hardware as of right now. Far away from an beta.

Which means the root password is probably still “admin” :)

Re: Elon Musk tweets using SpaceX’s Starlink satellite internet

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Post by donkeyd »

gondo wrote: post #4

What proof is there that he did it use Starlink for real? Considering he turned his twitter account into a joke [1] after SEC investigation [2]. [1] https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1176530527290941441 [2] https://www.sec.gov/news/press-release/2018-219

> What proof is there that he did it use Starlink for real?

None, but I can't imagine him joking about something that seems very important to him.

> Considering he turned his twitter account into a joke [1] after SEC investigation [2].

I challenge you to scroll down his timeline until before the SEC investigation. He was spreading memes way before that ever happened. Also, the SEC investigation was regarding Tesla and him running a public company. SpaceX is not a public company and he doesn't really have a history of tweeting nonsense about SpaceX projects.

Re: Elon Musk tweets using SpaceX’s Starlink satellite internet

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Post by tpmx »

I saw something interesting the other day that I had previously missed:

Starlink has the potential to provide lower latency around the globe than terrestrial fiber because light travels faster in vacuum than in optical silica fiber.

"Delay is Not an Option: Low Latency Routing in Space"

https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10062262/

http://nrg.cs.ucl.ac.uk/mjh/starlink-draft.pdf

"We conclude that a network built in this manner can provide lower latency communications than any possible terrestrial optical fiber network for communications over distances greater than about 3000 km."

Re: Elon Musk tweets using SpaceX’s Starlink satellite internet

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Post by GhettoMaestro »

tpmx wrote: post #9

I saw something interesting the other day that I had previously missed: Starlink has the potential to provide lower latency around the globe than terrestrial fiber because light travels faster in vacuum than in optical silica fiber. "Delay is Not an Option: Low Latency Routing in Space" https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10062262/ http://nrg.cs.ucl.ac.uk/mjh/starlink-draft.pdf "We conclude that a network built in…

Yeah pretty interesting. The primary use-case I imagine that it will improve is voice and video real-time communications. Anything that lowers the round-trip time during a human conversation is going to be very significant to improving the user experience.
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