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Starlink latency is still too high, and goodput is too low, especially as they oversubscribe their service. This will help a bit, but it’s no panacea for Starlink’s woes.
If it’s on the other side of the earth it beats everything.
Is this just announcing Starlink is peering privately with Cloudflare now, perhaps solving some of those issues?
Or is this some bigger partnership where Cloudflare is running some portion of Starlink’s internet connectivity?
Most other reporting online is just parroting this Reuters piece so I haven’t seen much interesting additional info.
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except for the issue where Elon just on a whim decided to geofence the spaceX usage in Ukraine/Russia conflict to not allow it to work when near the border or in Russia :/ per article: https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2023/08/28/elon-musks-sha...
There is no precedent for this, and it was a credible question whether Russia would use anti satellite weapons triggering a larger war.
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except for the issue where Elon just on a whim decided to geofence the spaceX usage in Ukraine/Russia conflict to not allow it to work when near the border or in Russia :/ per article: https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2023/08/28/elon-musks-sha...
Starlink latency is still too high, and goodput is too low, especially as they oversubscribe their service. This will help a bit, but it’s no panacea for Starlink’s woes.
Starlink latency is too high if your server is nearby. If it’s on the other side of the earth it beats everything.
cf-cache-status: HIT server: cloudflare cf-ray: 7fb85d282df8221e-MOON yeah, maybe few space based edge nodes ? makes totally sense
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Starlink is not as amazing as it's made out to be. There have been many LEO constellations before it, but due to the space industry as a whole being unattractive to investors, it didn't get any attention until musk got into it. Starlink as a technology is nothing new; what is new is their launch cadence that gives them the ability to put so many satellites into space. They are still not making money and will require…
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Starlink latency is too high if your server is nearby. If it’s on the other side of the earth it beats everything.
Do they actually route all the way across planet using laser interlinks? Are there any tests by someone?
Routing these packets around the planet would be a huge waste of their limited electrical and transmission resources.
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> not at all the same thing; elon, like all people, is fallible. he's not an engineer and CEO and visionary and project manager and salesperson. he's just a salesperson who likes engineering and didn't finish his college degree. Elon Musk obtained a B.A. in Physics and a B.S. in economics from the University of Pennsylvania, with concentrations in finance and entrepreneurial management. These degrees were officially…
He claimed to have been admitted into graduate program at Stanford. That was likely just the masters program. Regardless, that’s the “didn’t finish part” as he admitted he dropped out. His BA diploma is missing any reference to physics. This is the same school that graduated Donald Trump. More doubt here: https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/musk-physics-degree/
>In 2019, Aaron Greenspan, owner of the legal website Plainsite, as well as a frequent critic of, and litigant against, Elon Musk, asked Penn for a statement on Musk's degrees. In response, the university's public affairs office stated that:
>>Elon Musk earned a B.A. in physics and a B.S. in economics (concentrations: finance and entrepreneurial management) from the University of Pennsylvania. The degrees were awarded on May 19, 1997.