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How long does it take to rebuild fiber infrastructure? This is not a kindness, it is a promotion. Six months would be a kindness.
It's for disaster relief efforts, not to provide the monopolies who will be rebuilding the infrastructure a free pass.
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How is this even enforced? Don't you have plausible deniability by claiming you just wanted to send high entropy random noise?
Ham radio people are Lawful Good types. Your Chaotic Good idea isn't well recieved by them. No way there is any ability to enforce that law in a disaster zone, they have enough trouble with looting and the like.
There would likely be 20K starlink terminals available in the are had the FCC not revoked their participation. Would probably be handy about now. https://twitter.com/ajtourville/status/1840577643839955098
And at the time the decision was made its internet speeds were declining.
There would likely be 20K starlink terminals available in the are had the FCC not revoked their participation. Would probably be handy about now. https://twitter.com/ajtourville/status/1840577643839955098
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Nothing personal but that's "a lot" of vague, qualified, and loaded phrases like "mostly free" "more than the US govt" and such ... but the source is just some guy's twitter page?
You are coming across as someone with an axe to grind. There are plenty of private people and organizations getting supplies to the areas in need. Starlink hardware is definitely included as it's the best way to get remote communication up and going at the moment.
This might be good for responders, but not so much the victims. But then responders will have their own networks so won't need this. When you've been hit like this, you aren't going to use your power for this. You have bigger issues. You have to dry out your house, demolition, etc. And that's when you get power. You might not get it for weeks. And honestly, once power reaches residences, power to other services has u…
One of the most interesting ones is Shawn Hendrix on X: https://x.com/TheShawnHendrix
While I'm sure having internet isn't their focus, a starlink draws a trivial amount of power especially relative to a dehumidifier/fans/etc and you can only work for so many hours a day. Being able to sit around at the end of the day and watch some youtube and being able to communicate with friends and family would be the difference between an awful situation and completely untenable one, personally.
Despite the hate on the promo the tech they offer is still pretty cool. Only way I knew my in-laws were safe near Asheville was because one of their neighbors had starlink and a generator. Took a week for them to get power and cell phone service back and there is no way to get to them without a helicopter so if it wasn't for the product we would have just learned that they were alright.
Every couple of months the geny gets sparked up and everything tested. For a very small investment it's very comforting to know we've always got power/internet, regardless of what happens.
Still tricky to set up. Tried to get a Gen 2 working for an affected family yesterday, no beans.
Surprised by this, I think it has the easiest setup experience I’ve had in years for ISP tech. What conditions were you operating in?
It's odd that Starlink don't offer a "walled garden" experience allowing you to perform activation using just the Starlink itself, like almost all DOCSIS providers send down to unprovisioned modems. I can't tell if it's an intentional protection/KYC kind of thing or just an unimplemented feature.