Everything I heard about Starlink indicates that it's very fickle and unreliable.
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Just an awkward hand movement.
Starlink is currently experiencing a service outage
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> This message beamed to space from an undisclosed location
Just as undisclosed as the location I posted this message from, also distributed globally. For Starlink, and therefore for the authorities, your position is well known.
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#33They don't have a status page?
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> appreciate the technological miracle
What part of the solution is a technological miracle?
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Not a time to get philosophical when your drone team on the zero line in Ukraine loses comms
Which is why they don't use it for that. Too susceptible to jamming and Elon's politics on a given day. All their drones will be fly by (fiber optic) wire now.
Many use cases are better served without fiber (as fiber causes limited range, limited payload and need for unhampered (not through tree branches for example) access to target
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#36Earlier quoted context omitted.
Not a time to get philosophical when your drone team on the zero line in Ukraine loses comms
Which is why they don't use it for that. Too susceptible to jamming and Elon's politics on a given day. All their drones will be fly by (fiber optic) wire now.
I think the latest Geran-2s either use starlink (suspect) or guowang (more likely). I can't find reliable confirmation of which one.
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#37Everything I heard about Starlink indicates that it's very fickle and unreliable.
Really, everyone I've talked to has loved it. Granted they've all either live or work in remote areas where it has completely changed their lives. Those who live in remote areas can now actually work from home reliably and those who work on ships or in remote parts of world can now call home daily.
It's probably down to your expectations. Starlink won't replace a fiber connection, but if you only have a satellite connection or dial up, I can't see it being anything other than an improvement.
One concern I do have is if Starlink is down, there aren't really any backup. On the other hand I also only have one fiber connection at home. It's just that I could get a COAX hookup by tomorrow.
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Or one could just not be weird about it.
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#39Earlier quoted context omitted.
Not a time to get philosophical when your drone team on the zero line in Ukraine loses comms
Which is why they don't use it for that. Too susceptible to jamming and Elon's politics on a given day. All their drones will be fly by (fiber optic) wire now.
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#40Everything I heard about Starlink indicates that it's very fickle and unreliable.
Really, everyone I've talked to has loved it. Granted they've all either live or work in remote areas where it has completely changed their lives. Those who live in remote areas can now actually work from home reliably and those who work on ships or in remote parts of world can now call home daily. It's probably down to your expectations. Starlink won't replace a fiber connection, but if you only have a satellite con…
I use starlink and find it fast and reliable - far more reliable than any cabled connection I ever had elsewhere, and faster than the fibre that’s available around me, which is contended to hell and back. Yes, it’s gigabit in theory, but in practice you get 20Mb/s, and any time there’s a power outage, which is often, it’s down.