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> $120/mo for service and $599 for hardware Noope. no thank you. https://www.starlink.com/
It hardly seems excessive to get Internet where the alternative for a lot of people is nothing or at least nothing that lets you stream video, music, etc.
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It's not really a service meant for SoCal, but I'm sure they see it as a valuable stress test.
Every time Starlink comes up it’s the same argument. “It’s not meant for high population density areas” Without the “high population density areas” it is simply not economically viable
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I believe the current implementation of the network requires the satellite to see both you and a ground station at the same time. So ground stations are the limiting factor.
It was this way until very recently, google "starlink lasers". The newer satellites have satellite-to-satellite laser links which can form a chain until they reach a satellite that is presently overhead of an earth station. SpaceX has now started selling the global ocean maritime product version of starlink which specifically advertises full ocean coverage worldwide. I recently saw a person's first hand experience of…
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Starlink sats don't stick around for multiple millennia. Their orbit degrades quite fast. You need much higher orbits for such longevity.
No wasn't suspecting nuisance-satellite of being near-eternal! I mean we have had a real night sky for millenia, and now a handful of men are being permitted, with hardly any communal discussion or decision, to expunge it. Many won't notice, of course, having been denatured by suburbia.
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Every time Starlink comes up it’s the same argument. “It’s not meant for high population density areas” Without the “high population density areas” it is simply not economically viable
But it doesn't necessarily need high subscriber rates in any one place to make lots of money. If you just focus on those high population areas, 1.7 billion people live in cities. If you can sell to a few in a thousand then you will have several million subscribers across the world and they will likely be wealthier people. And then there are cruise ships, airliners, oil rigs, ski chalets, military compounds, backhauli…
I have a WISP (Wireless Internet Service Provider) that works fairly well with occasional issues.
I’m consisdering Starlink but heard there may be issues with latency and dropped frames, and it is around 60% more expensive.
Does anyone have experience streaming with Twitch using Starlink? I have a WISP (Wireless Internet Service Provider) that works fairly well with occasional issues. I’m consisdering Starlink but heard there may be issues with latency and dropped frames, and it is around 60% more expensive.
In South Africa we have the Square Kilometre Array in the Meerkat National Park; I sincerely hope it doesn't come here. We don't need it polluting our skies. Fibre should be rolled out for internet access, not another unsensible Musk dream
Starlink is already wreaking havoc on the night sky for every part of the planet inhabited by humans and it is only going to get worse. Unfortunately this is not getting much attention from anywhere besides the astronomy community and they are largely ignored because their funding is dwarfed by venture capital funds.
Does anyone have experience streaming with Twitch using Starlink? I have a WISP (Wireless Internet Service Provider) that works fairly well with occasional issues. I’m consisdering Starlink but heard there may be issues with latency and dropped frames, and it is around 60% more expensive.
Not Twitch, but it seems to work pretty well with video in general. Not as reliable as my wired connection at home but pretty good. Can't really speak to latency (though looked OK on a connection test) but I don't really do anything that's especially latency sensitive.
Note to self and others considering this:
The dynamic bitrate setting in Open Broadcaster Studio could help smooth things out: https://obsproject.com/wiki/Dropped-Frames-and-General-Conne...