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...in space?
Cat 9 cables are rated for low crosstalk links in LEO, though I'm not sure how Starlink solved the problem where the cable would tend to wind around the earth because of the speed difference between LEO and the Earth's rotation.
https://x.com/Starlink/status/1948474586699571518?t=WBrSAA5Q...
For those who refuse to use X, as we all should, this is a post from Starlink that says simply: "Starlink is currently in a network outage and we are actively implementing a solution. We appreciate your patience, we'll share an update once this issue is resolved."
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In the US: Ubiquiti, Cambium, probably not Tarana because that's way too expensive for a 1.5Mbps sub. Mikrotik radios are fairly rare here, but the routers and switches are everywhere.
Thats interesting ! Mikrotik routers and switches are very cheap, I wonder why they one product line is extremely common but the radios are rare rather than roughly equivalent spread ?
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Cyberattack. Given the usage in active wars, it's a big juicy target. There's precedent too; Russia hacked Viasat at the start of the Ukraine war. They actually bricked user terminals in that attack.
If it is a hack there can't be that many suspects, just narrow it down to people/groups/countries that hate Elon Musk.
If anyone has benefited humanity over the last couple of decades, it's Elon Musk! I'd argue he's done more than anyone!
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In the US: Ubiquiti, Cambium, probably not Tarana because that's way too expensive for a 1.5Mbps sub. Mikrotik radios are fairly rare here, but the routers and switches are everywhere.
Thats interesting ! Mikrotik routers and switches are very cheap, I wonder why they one product line is extremely common but the radios are rare rather than roughly equivalent spread ?
Mikrotik is still quite heavily used for their routers and switches among WISPs. They are the most affordable vendor for 100Gbps switches. Pity we don't have a better open source software stack for their hardware.
Ubiquiti is also actively neglecting the WISP market. Anything that isn't UniFi seems to be mostly abandoned these days.
Well my boss is in a cabin in the wilderness somewhere and his only access to the internet is via Starling, so that's great news!
I've heard of IP over pigeons, but using starlings is innovative.
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Cyberattack. Given the usage in active wars, it's a big juicy target. There's precedent too; Russia hacked Viasat at the start of the Ukraine war. They actually bricked user terminals in that attack.
FYI, Vodafone and other major European mobile networks were down during the last few days. This is hybrid warfare, not a coincidence. Russia needs to learn some manners, the hard way.
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FYI, Vodafone and other major European mobile networks were down during the last few days. This is hybrid warfare, not a coincidence. Russia needs to learn some manners, the hard way.
Incredibly, Americans still think they have any chance of teaching Russia or China "manners". The hubris of a decadent empire. And of course, they have to downvote to hell. They need to keep the illusion that the US is still the most powerful military, the most powerful economy, and that AI will save their hegemony. Really sad.
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FYI, Vodafone and other major European mobile networks were down during the last few days. This is hybrid warfare, not a coincidence. Russia needs to learn some manners, the hard way.
Not a very technical root cause analysis you have there. Can you leave geopolitics out of it until it's confirmed? Other social media networks may tolerate this but this is not HN worthy.
Starlink VP of engineering Michael Nicolls tweeted that the service has "now mostly recovered from the network outage" after two and a half hours.
"The outage was due to failure of key internal software services that operate the core network. We apologize for the temporary disruption in our service; we are deeply committed to providing a highly reliable network, and will fully root cause this issue and ensure it does not occur again," the tweet, posted at 3:23 p.m. PT, says.
Edit: funny, can't even access the replies..