Starlink

[ponytug]

Exactly....

But I hope many potential users get their undies in a knot and decide to skip the beta testing. I will try almost anything to get decent access. Heck, I am so far in the boonies it is 2.5 miles to my mailbox on a dirt road. Uphill both ways...LOL

Those links ponytug posted show my area is not too bad. 90+% coverage currently so that is promising....unless the 10% down is during the day.

Sorry to hear about the uphill both ways trek to your mailbox

The 10% outages will be distributed erratically during the 24hrs, depending on orbits. Not every orbital plane is full, because not every Starlink satellite made it to altitude or the right orbit.

You might also want to bear in mind that your coverage also depends on how low to the horizon your antenna can "see". The default on the coverage map is 35 degrees. If your antenna can see closer to 25 degrees, which is the current Starlink forecast, you will likely do even better. There is a menu option on that coverage map to see what a 25 degree view would be like.

Much as I am looking forward to Starlink, I would love to be able to have fiber, but the nearby fiber providers have all declined to even offer an estimate of what it might cost to run it out here. Such is life. I expect that post Starlink that will probably change as more of us in the area drop DSL, and microwave links.

All the best,

Peter

 

[/pine]

It's the speed factor. I have yet to see 4k or 8k standardized streams. The current infrastructure cannot support that. gigabit networks could.

Strictly from a downstream point of view the average user will never notice a difference between 25m and 1g...Average servers just don't output that fast...it's like using a soda straw's worth of volume in a 6' diameter pipe...!

 

[riptides]

Strictly from a downstream point of view the average user will never notice a difference between 25m and 1g...Average servers just don't output that fast...it's like using a soda straw's worth of volume in a 6' diameter pipe...!

You seem all about the now.

All about the now, is not taking advantage of technology due to geographic conditions.

Starlink eliminates the geographic issues and presents an opportunity to expand the infrastructures backends to keep up.

 

[/pine]

You seem all about the now.

All about the now, is not taking advantage of technology due to geographic conditions.

Starlink eliminates the geographic issues and presents an opportunity to expand the infrastructures backends to keep up.

Again...strictly from a downstream point of view...do you think users will be watching movies etc. any faster than they are already streaming ??

IMO the true advancement of technology will be in the ability of local storage capacity...and cloud storage of personal data will be a thing of the past...(except for the naive that is...)

 

[LouNY]

You seem all about the now.

All about the now, is not taking advantage of technology due to geographic conditions.

Starlink eliminates the geographic issues and presents an opportunity to expand the infrastructures backends to keep up.

Only for people with the ability to receive the information.
It will be like the people that only had slow dialup with everything going to graphics, it could take minutes to load a page as the graphics came in one line at a time.

 

[riptides]

Quality of the movie drastically changes.

8k standard vs 720i.

Again...strictly from a downstream point of view...do you think users will be watching movies etc. any faster than they are already streaming ??

IMO the true advancement of technology will be in the ability of local storage capacity...and cloud storage of personal data will be a thing of the past...(except for the naive that is...)

 

[riptides]

Right now my household tech is not the issue. Doubt it will be in a few years too.

Only for people with the ability to receive the information.
It will be like the people that only had slow dialup with everything going to graphics, it could take minutes to load a page as the graphics came in one line at a time.

 

[Oaktree]

Strictly from a downstream point of view the average user will never notice a difference between 25m and 1g...Average servers just don't output that fast...it's like using a soda straw's worth of volume in a 6' diameter pipe...!

Agree totally, but it was never about the technology. It's all about the hype.

Quality of the movie drastically changes.

8k standard vs 720i.

There is precious little 4k content out there, let alone 8k, and I doubt there will be anytime soon. In the meanwhile why not find a way to provide rural access at a reasonable cost?

 

[/pine]

speaking of technology advancements...laser technology is advancing so fast that it could overtake the microwave (12GHz) that Starlink is dedicated to so fast Starlink could be obsolete before it ever gets out of beta testing...!

 

[riptides]

speaking of technology advancements...laser technology is advancing so fast that it could overtake the microwave (12GHz) that Starlink is dedicated to so fast Starlink could be obsolete before it ever gets out of beta testing...!

Is not laser point-to-point? Anything land based will run up against the geography issues of today.