Starlink

[rekees4300]

Each ground station is and will be at the end user's residence.

The giant mushrooms (aka ground stations) will NOT be at users' residences.

 

[ponytug]

FWIW: I dropped my DSL pings from the sixty millisecond range to about ten by reprogramming my router to use different DNS servers than the one provided by my DSL provider. While the change didn't shift the top speed (5Mbit/s) for us, web surfing became far more responsive.

Google and others provide it as a free service. 8.8.8.8 and 8.8.4.4 are two to try.

Back to awaiting a StarLink invite...

All the best,

Peter

 

[Diggin It]

List of free public DNS servers: Free and Public DNS Server List (Valid November 2020)

Some are better than others. Some track you, some don't. Some have content filters that may block sites you want to visit, others don't block anything.

 

[Frankenkubota]

The giant mushrooms (aka ground stations) will NOT be at users' residences.

I read a little last nite and to me, it's still confusing. Back in the day, those radomes were EXPENSIVE!

 

[dmccarty]

I read a little last nite and to me, it's still confusing. Back in the day, those radomes were EXPENSIVE!

StarLink's ground stations are the link between their satellites, the user's/subscriber's antennae, and the Internet.

In our house, we have several networks running, but when we connect to one of those networks we are not on the Internet, only our internal network. We have to go through either a DSL box or our MoFi box that provides access to the Internet. The Starlink ground stations are what provides access to the Internet. Just connecting to one of the Starlink satellites does not get one to the Internet. There has to be a ground station. The subscriber is not the ground station.

Coverage of the Starlink network is limited by the location of the Starlink ground stations. The satellite has to be able to link the subscriber to a ground station for Internet connectivity.

There is version of Starlink satellites that will use lasers so that the satellites can pass information between each other and act as a relay to get to a ground station. This will minimize the need for ground stations. The earliest satellites did not have this laser link. Not sure when/if they have launched satellites with this capability yet.

Later,
Dan

 

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How does satellite Internet operate? | HowStuffWorks

 

[Frankenkubota]

Yup. Thx

I was stuck in the 80s thinking dbs tv etc.

 

[ernemats]

Is anyone getting any emails from starlink?

 

[riptides]

Is anyone getting any emails from starlink?

No, but the FCC is giving them a funding stream.

SpaceX Starlink wins nearly $9 million in FCC subsidies auction

 

[Frankenkubota]

Just curious. Seems in the last few days I'm seeing lots of commercials for sat. internet, 3x speed of dsl.

That's not Starlink is it? Possibly something like via sat?