Starlink

[Diggin It]

I am not trying to be a jerk, i really don't have to try very hard but.......

Why do you need an antenna on your roof if the signal is delivered via internet from ground station distribution points? in my case dsl down 2600 ft, amazing to me it even works!

Service has to get from the ground (network centers), up to the satellites and back down to the ground (users).

 

[Diggin It]

Maybe like 20 years ago. Satellites of today, talk to other satellites. There are a few control stations here and there, ...

And those control stations are on the ground, along with all of the server farms that hold and distribute the data and information. Information is relayed between satellites, but doesn't originate or reside on them.

 

[riptides]

And those control stations are on the ground, along with all of the server farms that hold and distribute the data and information. Information is relayed between satellites, but doesn't originate or reside on them.

I repeat what I said earlier, with StarLink you the consumer are the GROUND Station. Are you seeing the difference?

 

[Diggin It]

Unless the device in your house is handling and processing the data from millions of other users worldwide, YOU are the end user, nothing more.

 

[riptides]

Unless the device in your house is handling and processing the data from millions of other users worldwide, YOU are the end user, nothing more.

SpaceX Get Approval for 1 Million Starlink Ground Stations in USA – Parabolic Arc

 

[lman]

Each ground station is and will be at the end user's residence. Please read the contents of the link that I previously posted.
Starlink - SpaceX Satellite Internet Constellation

 

[Diggin It]

Ford calls my car a Taurus. That doesn't mean it's a bull.

They can call it a Lunar Landing Module or a Mars Rover for all I care, but in the end, the device is a modem, an end user interface.

 

[/pine]

It seems like some do not actually know how the Internet actually works...when a hyperlink or bookmark etc, is clicked the users computer sends a request to a server for whatever file/document etc...and it is returned to the specific user that sent the request...

For a satellite Internet connection to work the request must get to the satellite (this requires a transmitter powerful enough to reach said satellite)...the satellite then forwards the request to the proper server (ground based) retrieves said file/document then forwards it back to the original user that requested the file/doc...

In the early days of satellite Internet connections...end user hardware did not have the capability to transmit requests they had to use an analog (telephone) line connection to a central ground based station with a powerful enough transmitter...said requests were then sent (via satellite) back to the end user...

 

[lman]

Some of the Starlink pings/latency is better than what I have with my dsl.

 

[/pine]

Some of the Starlink pings/latency is better than what I have with my dsl.

Latency issues and ping times etc. are not just ISP problematic...lots of other factors contribute to those issues...they (ISP times are generally constant where other delay sources are conditional)...