SpaceX Starlink average speedtest is 42.3Mbps down / 9.7 Mbps up

Post by seebetter » Thu, Aug 27, 2020, 11:26 AM UTC

capableweb wrote: post #130

zhte415 wrote: post #55

Fantastic. I'm keenly curious on how this will work with national regulations. Having a single global ISP is very attractive on the surface and that's with the huge caveat on monopoly, but as an additional option. I'm just not sure how this will interact with some nations' policy/restrictions. Looking at this aspect very much.

The right way of making sure this doesn't become a monopoly is to treat this satellite infrastructure just as you treat the fiber infrastructure in many countries. Where instead of having the ISP owning the infrastructure, they can rent the usage of it, so you can have many competing companies using it. So Starlink would be the infrastructure and they need to allow others to use it on the same level as the Starlink I…

Post by epanchin » Thu, Aug 27, 2020, 11:28 AM UTC

alias_neo wrote: post #159

y04nn wrote: post #133

This is easy to have a lot of bandwidth when you only have 10s of users, but when the bandwidth will be shared between 10000 users will it plummet? I remember when 4G was new and only few user where using it, it was very fast, but when more users arrived on the spectrum, the bandwidth per user decreased and the latency incised.

I have been on EE 4G in central London (Westminster) for several years now while at work. A speed test back when it was new would get me 85/85 Mb, these days, with a much more capable device, I am lucky if I get 15/30 Mb (download is being taxed more). It's not horrific, but it's a far cry from what I was advertised when I started. I guess I'll just upgrade to their 5G plan and start the cycle again sigh

Post by brendawalsh » Thu, Aug 27, 2020, 11:33 AM UTC

sidcool wrote: post #172

May be silly question, but why is the up so low compared to down?

Post by de_watcher » Thu, Aug 27, 2020, 11:37 AM UTC

rkangel wrote: post #64

baq wrote: post #59

Earlier quoted context omitted.

50ms ping should be reasonable for most games. whippersnappers who complain about 20ms ping should watch some quakeworld or quake 3 cpma where this dude rat used to destroy everyone on 300ms.

On some games (Rainbow 6: Siege being the one I'm most familiar with) latency actually helps you, as the enemy has an out of date picture of where you are.

Post by criley2 » Thu, Aug 27, 2020, 11:40 AM UTC

alias_neo wrote: post #159

y04nn wrote: post #133

This is easy to have a lot of bandwidth when you only have 10s of users, but when the bandwidth will be shared between 10000 users will it plummet? I remember when 4G was new and only few user where using it, it was very fast, but when more users arrived on the spectrum, the bandwidth per user decreased and the latency incised.

I have been on EE 4G in central London (Westminster) for several years now while at work. A speed test back when it was new would get me 85/85 Mb, these days, with a much more capable device, I am lucky if I get 15/30 Mb (download is being taxed more). It's not horrific, but it's a far cry from what I was advertised when I started. I guess I'll just upgrade to their 5G plan and start the cycle again sigh