Beta users of Starlink get downloads of 11 to 60 Mbps

Post by znpy » Sat, Aug 15, 2020, 8:50 AM UTC

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Lol here in .it I get a 1 Gbps ftth connection for 24,95 €/month

I was paying in excess of $112 US a month for the priviledge of DSL that had about a 60% uptime on fair weather days, and 0% uptime on rainy days. I also forgot to mentiom how my DSL speeds got that low; one section of telephone wire on my rural street had literally no usable pairs left (they had all corroded into nothing). the linesman had to reroute our phone line about 1.5miles out of the way in the opposite direc…

Post by sbierwagen » Sat, Aug 15, 2020, 8:59 AM UTC

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Ok you got me with "overlooking the ocean". I will admit, I was a little bit envious. But then I recalled the great Terry Pratchett quote that you are living on a continent where pretty much every animal, except for maybe some sheep, is equipped with some venom and actively trying to kill you. Plus some of the plants. So I guess it's fair play.

From an Australian perspective, the USA can look like a place where the earth might suddenly turn to jelly and knock your city down, or giant wind vortexes could descend from the sky and carry you away - things which seem more terrifying to me than a few animals I can easily avoid. I kind of assume those things are blown out of proportion in media much the same way our wildlife is.

Post by sbierwagen » Sat, Aug 15, 2020, 9:04 AM UTC

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Rubbish. I went to New Zealand once and the fucking mozzies were the size of a golf ball. I'll take the one redback encounter every 5 years in Australia thanks.

Well as a kiwi I remember at the tender age of 11 going to Australia for the first time and finding a stick insect on the footpath about as long as my forearm the first time we left the hotel. That was fun. Actually I lived there a couple years in my late teens and you look up at the power lines and see big spiders in them but that's about it. I've been far more terrified of my encounters with Suzumebachi and Mukade…

Post by Tuna-Fish » Sat, Aug 15, 2020, 9:18 AM UTC

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There is absolutely no way a satellite network can clear that kind of downlink bandwidth. Evergreen comment. Encoding and compression software and hardware continue to improve. The only constant in technology is change. Will we be able to do this sort of bandwith to LEO eventually? Yes. Can we do it this very moment? No one has tried.

There are underlying physical limitations to spectral efficiency. The best modulation schemes in use today can hit about 60 bits per second per hz of bandwidth. Meanwhile, single fibers top out above 40 terabit. To duplicate the bandwidth of just a single fiber link with a radio downlink, you'd need over 600 ghz of available spectrum. That'd require advances pushing deep into the thz gap, but beyond that, the physics…

Post by justinclift » Sat, Aug 15, 2020, 9:50 AM UTC

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Heh Heh Heh. Well, Isaac Butterfields response applies: https://youtu.be/t1uZZ_xRYvQ?t=153 Snakes and spiders are pretty much it. Snakes are very rare to see unless you travel to the bush. Spiders though, are common outside. Once you've learned not to turn over rocks in your garden (with your bare hands anyway), you're fine. :)

> Once you've learned not to turn over rocks in your garden You have no idea how ridiculous that sounds to me.