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Re: Starlink Premium

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Post by fortyseven »

ZGDUwpqEWpUZ wrote: post #159
lotsofpulp wrote: post #147

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Has “American” gone out of style?

I can remember "USians" being in use since at least as far back as the 90s. It's just a cute way of acknowledging there's more to the Americas than just the US.

Somehow I missed that for over 40 years.

Re: Starlink Premium

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Post by racnid »

cbozeman wrote: post #120
markdown wrote: post #82

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Why even write that if you aren't going to say what their response was?

Uh, it was obviously, "We don't do that yet." Otherwise he'd have something about it.

Yes, it was a wholly boring response. Something like stay tuned exciting things are coming.

Re: Starlink Premium

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Post by adgjlsfhk1 »

adhesive_wombat wrote: post #199
adgjlsfhk1 wrote: post #189

Earlier quoted context omitted.

it looks like their previous satellites (v1.0) were 18Gbps. I haven't found anything for v1.5 which is currently deployed, or v2.0 which theoretically are starting to launch this year.

Yes, but that is presumably not a maximum of 18 billion users at 1 bps, nor a maximum of 1 user at 18Gbps.

based on the plans they are selling, it almost certainly can do both 40 users at 500mbps and 200 users at 100mbps. This is a total guess, but I'd imagine it can probably do 2000 users at 10mpbs, since 10:1 over-subscription is pretty common for ISPs.

Re: Starlink Premium

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Post by bryanlarsen »

shaklee3 wrote: post #209
bryanlarsen wrote: post #208

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Did I say anything about their fastest package?

so, when you compare to cable do you also say 25-50Mbps speeds? because that's the minimum cable speed I'm my area. But 1Gb is the max. since when has comparing minimum speeds ever been a valid comparison?

When you're talking about a cheaper service.

Re: Starlink Premium

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Post by gnabgib »

yoz-y wrote: post #198
kisstheblade wrote: post #196

Does this make starlink any more feasible? I thought that the math just doesn't work out. Not to mention the massive amount of space garbage (40k satellites replaced every 5 years?) See for example a "busted" video https://youtu.be/zaUCDZ9d09Y?t=912

I doubt it. At this price basically the only customers are in rural US and CA. And, by definition, this is not very many people.

It only just showed up for CA (in 2021) and mostly only along the border (eg Victoria). Granted a lot of population is lower.. but current ETAs (from the starlink "Order" page) for the 5 biggest cities are all tbd:

  - Montreal late 2022 (4.2M people)
  - Vancouver late 2022 (2.6M people)
  - Toronto 2022-2023 (6.2M people)
  - Calgary 2022-2023 (1.6M people)
  - Edmonton late 2023 (1.4M people)

Re: Starlink Premium

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Post by partiallypro »

timbit42 wrote: post #202
partiallypro wrote: post #55

I ordered my Dishy day 1 and have still not gotten it and they are already launching new services. Anyhow, this looks expensive, but for a business it's pretty cheap.

Are you high latitude? You may not have good enough coverage until they get more satellites up.

No, I live around the Nashville area.

Re: Starlink Premium

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Post by brucehoult »

lukeholder wrote: post #140
partiallypro wrote: post #55

I ordered my Dishy day 1 and have still not gotten it and they are already launching new services. Anyhow, this looks expensive, but for a business it's pretty cheap.

I ordered mine and got it 6 months later. I am in Perth Australia.

I ordered mine on January 3 (the same day I rented a new house), it shipped from California on January 7, and received it on January 14. I'm in northern New Zealand.

Re: Starlink Premium

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Post by yoz-y »

gnabgib wrote: post #215
yoz-y wrote: post #198

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I doubt it. At this price basically the only customers are in rural US and CA. And, by definition, this is not very many people.

It only just showed up for CA (in 2021) and mostly only along the border (eg Victoria). Granted a lot of population is lower.. but current ETAs (from the starlink "Order" page) for the 5 biggest cities are all tbd: - Montreal late 2022 (4.2M people) - Vancouver late 2022 (2.6M people) - Toronto 2022-2023 (6.2M people) - Calgary 2022-2023 (1.6M people) - Edmonton late 2023 (1.4M people)

There is no way that getting a satellite connection inside a city is cheaper or more practical than a physical line though. It will be necessarily slower, have worse latency and be more expensive.
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