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Is it going to end up in Tesla truck and cars ? Tesla is building an army of connected robots on wheels.
A tangential comment. I opened the page on a non ad blocked browser and my eyes burnt. I am OK with ads but this is next level intrusive.
(a) is it the same phased array antenna as dishy v2? (b) is power usage improved? at 90 Watts dishy v2 is not perfect for an RV. (c) dishy v2 has pretty slow startup time. It might be less than perfect if that thing required 10 minutes of unobstructed view to bootstrap. I have mixed experiences with dishyv2 tech. I've had situations when it was flawless with half-obstructed view. I've had moments when it had hiccups…
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That’s my experience, yes. I wonder if there are enough such people to make Starlink profitable.
You’d be shocked how many areas outside major metro areas don’t have any broadband options. When we were buying a home recently, we had to carefully search Comcast and Wave’s websites to make sure the home had broadband service. Lots of homes only had satellite internet. If you add RVs, boats, and planes, there’s an even bigger potential market for Starlink.
Seriously considering Starlink instead of old copper.
(a) is it the same phased array antenna as dishy v2? (b) is power usage improved? at 90 Watts dishy v2 is not perfect for an RV. (c) dishy v2 has pretty slow startup time. It might be less than perfect if that thing required 10 minutes of unobstructed view to bootstrap. I have mixed experiences with dishyv2 tech. I've had situations when it was flawless with half-obstructed view. I've had moments when it had hiccups…
There's not really an issue with power on moving vehicles except sail boats.
The majority of RV/vanlifers do not need internet in motion, they just want a regular static 12V dish that can be mounted fixed and flush to the roof/racks like any solar panel. $2500 for such a dish is the wrong target market. The only customer that needs internet in motion are things like boats, planes, trains and buses.
How would you feel if you paid $700 for a vehicle mountable dish and then had the option to pay $2000 to "upgrade" it to allow to use it while it was in motion?
That's the sort of thing that really bothers some people. Hacker News celebrated when New Jersey proposed banning that sort of thing in cars.
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Yes, all starlink user terminals are phased arrays.
They have to be due to how rapidly the sats move in and out of view.
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They have to be due to how rapidly the sats move in and out of view.
Also frequency re-use. They will talk on the same frequency to multiple ground terminals, but pointed different directions from the satellites perspective.
This press release seems pretty light on information. This could be a phased array antenna according to this review (which seems to be focused on airplane-mounted devices): https://www.bcsatellite.net/blog/flat-panel-antennas-state-o... > "Currently the most popular alternative to Gimbal antennas are Phased Array Antenna flat panel antennas, which are composed of many radiating elements that can be thought of as nume…