Starlink Internet pricing

[Nod]

 

[Scooby_Doo]

Haters gonna hate.

This initiative is awesome; it will liberate so many people who cannot get internet connectivity.

Expect governments to try and stifle access.

Figure out how to 3D print the dish and China is going to **** itself.

 

[Dairyfarmer]

Just lay some fibre, dude...

There always has to be one idiot.

Read up on what Starlink is being developed for. It does not work well in high population areas due to the bandwidth limitations. It is designed for low population density areas. These areas tend to not have access to infrastructure like LTE and fibre because it is too expensive.

 

[furpile]

Haters gonna hate.

This initiative is awesome; it will liberate so many people who cannot get internet connectivity.

Expect governments to try and stifle access.

It has already been used recently during a fire in the US to provide communications for fire and rescue personnel after normal comms went down. The US military is also very keen on using this for remote locations, so they might have the backing needed to get through the red tape.

 

[Geoff.D]

There have already been complaints from astronomers (?) about the satellites fouling up the night skies. They then made adjustments to decrease the satellites visibility from earth.

I was wondering how these things are effected by storms and such. Does the quality tank when there is a storm for example?

That is dependent on the frequency band allocated to the network for use on the terminal to satellite access.
Without knowing what that is (I have just not bothered to enquire or research), the answer is yes, storms and atmospheric conditions will affect performance just like with all radio-based systems.

 

[Geoff.D]

If we can have this in SA... Local market is in for a shock.

Without local gateways in SA (as well as in the mass of underserved areas all over), the promised affordable Internet connectivity is just another pipe dream.

 

[Geoff.D]

There always has to be one idiot.

Read up on what Starlink is being developed for. It does not work well in high population areas due to the bandwidth limitations. It is designed for low population density areas. These areas tend to not have access to infrastructure like LTE and fibre because it is too expensive.

AND it is NOT designed to provide high capacity inter-continental links either!. So all that BS on the slides about latency is exactly that, BS!

 

[Geoff.D]

It has already been used recently during a fire in the US to provide communications for fire and rescue personnel after normal comms went down. The US military is also very keen on using this for remote locations, so they might have the backing needed to get through the red tape.

So, it is just another Iridium network, with the same constraints and issues! A thin low capacity network for low data rate applications and basic connectivity, NOT for all the "stuff" all those starry-eyed people think it will provide!

 

[yebocan]

It has already been used recently during a fire in the US to provide communications for fire and rescue personnel after normal comms went down. The US military is also very keen on using this for remote locations, so they might have the backing needed to get through the red tape.

US military uses Iridium - last year concluded a 7 year deal

Iridium inks 7-year deal with military, Memorandum of Understanding with OneWeb - NASASpaceFlight.com

Just eight months after completing an ambitious, uninterrupted service replacement of their 66 interconnected satellite…

www.nasaspaceflight.com

 

[Yskasmetnstoof]

So, R10 000 for the modem and then R2000 p.m. and no speed guarantee. And if you have problems, phone California.

 

[Yskasmetnstoof]

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Haters gonna hate.

This initiative is awesome; it will liberate so many people who cannot get internet connectivity.

Expect governments to try and stifle access.

Nd fanbois will beliebe.

 

[Aghori]

"Starlink will be capable of delivering internet speeds of 100 Mbps or more with ultralow latency to people all around the world. Customers will just need a Starlink dish receiver (what Elon Musk calls “a UFO on a stick”) and a monthly internet plan from Starlink."

Yissus boet Elon, you been smokin' that Durban poison again?

 

[|tera|]

The start of Skynet.
Arnie will be in action soon.

 

[Dairyfarmer]

So, R10 000 for the modem and then R2000 p.m. and no speed guarantee. And if you have problems, phone California.

Obviously never had the misfortune of having satellite internet. R10k was a reasonable price to pay for equipment. R1k pm for 2Mbps 10Gb cap was a "good" deal a few years back.

 

[RaptorSA]

Now if only we can nuke twitter the world will be a better place.

The company said it has given the “Better Than Nothing” name to the beta programme because it wanted to lower the expectations of its testers due to predicted inconsistent performance.

Such an Elon thing to do, love it.
So goddamn refreshing when companies say it like it is.

 

[|tera|]

Now if only we can nuke twitter the world will be a better place.

The company said it has given the “Better Than Nothing” name to the beta programme because it wanted to lower the expectations of its testers due to predicted inconsistent performance.

Such an Elon thing to do, love it.
So goddamn refreshing when companies say it like it is.

Better than GPRS

 

[Geoff.D]

"Starlink will be capable of delivering internet speeds of 100 Mbps or more with ultralow latency to people all around the world. Customers will just need a Starlink dish receiver (what Elon Musk calls “a UFO on a stick”) and a monthly internet plan from Starlink."

Yissus boet Elon, you been smokin' that Durban poison again?

Great promises, all based on access to local gateways. Many similar networks have "never" resulted in the deployment of local gateways in countries, the network claims it will service, which means long backhauls back to SA, which costs the end-user in terms of $ and performance.

As the saying goes, divide that 100 Mbps by 10 and then use that figure to guide your expectation.

 

[Nod]

 

[furpile]

So, it is just another Iridium network, with the same constraints and issues! A thin low capacity network for low data rate applications and basic connectivity, NOT for all the "stuff" all those starry-eyed people think it will provide!

US military uses Iridium - last year concluded a 7 year deal

Iridium inks 7-year deal with military, Memorandum of Understanding with OneWeb - NASASpaceFlight.com

Just eight months after completing an ambitious, uninterrupted service replacement of their 66 interconnected satellite…

www.nasaspaceflight.com

They are not the same as Iridium. Iridium has 66 satellites in total. Starlink is launching 60 at a time with the aim of having more than 40 000 eventually.

The military deal from last year does not even include the "broadband" part of the new Iridium satellites.

The initial Certus offering is around 350 kb/s up and down, and that will be increased later this year through a firmware upgrade to about 350 kb/s up and about 700 kb/s down.

Even if Starlink only achieves 10 Mbps that is enough for a video call that you cannot do over Iridium. The military probably won't drop Iridium but they can use both systems for different purposes. They are already testing the Starlink system.

 

[GhostSixFour]

If this works properly, I'm selling my house in the burbs and moving to bum**** somewhere, only thing stopping me is lack of proper internet across our country. We'll see though.