Hello Members,

What do you think about Starlinks satellites?

A bit over hyped, but they want to launch a shiz ton of them, which will be needed for the goal. You should have a look at all the space junk they have tracked so far, these will all be added to that eventually.

http://stuffin.space/

Hi,

I was watching today on YouTube channel the man from North Dakota was monting Satellite dish of Starlink and he was doing speed test, in mountains.
He was achieving about 50-100Mbps
Now he has in this place a snow and it is not to bad still.
Rain and clouds doesn't effect speeds.

Satellites, in general, have greatly improved since the 50s. I don't think the goal is necessarily faster or even more reliable satellite internet, but more so just making internet accessible in every part of the world regardless of how remote.

The speed is about average for satellite, some can get even faster speeds, but not nearly as much coverage as Starlink will have, which is the entire world, literally.

It's certainly an ambitious project, to give internet access to the entire planet. However, I do have some reservations about the number of satellites involved and this can only add to the junk problem in near earth orbit. We really need to clean up this junk before either there's a catastrophic incident that takes out a lot of our ability to communicate globally or we surround ourselves with junk that locks us in. This latter is more unlikely but it is a possibility.

Unfortunately people didn't care about rubbish, the millions tons of plastics in the oceans are kills the nature.
It doesn't matter where it will be, I think that until they don't change the way of thinking nothing will change unfortunately.
We have to care about place where we living.

There's so much junk in space they have to schedule and reschedule launches to avoid it.



Yeah, but they did make the solar panels on the Starlink satellites less reflective because they were too bright when launching into orbit.

at 10mbs you can watch a movie perhaps it takes a while to download!

a SIP phone i wouldn't mind ...without geo-blocking

Hello,

I hope that you are fine and safe. What do you mean by "a SIP phone".

Have a nice day

SIP is the protocol used for VoIP (Internet phone such as Vonage).

I'm all for global technology.
There is a concern about all the space junk we have put in orbit.
We have a similar problem in our oceans with plastic.
We are litterbugs.

I imagine at some point in our future there will be salvage companies who gather up those materials and make some money. Right now, the technology doesn't exist to make cleaning it up cost effective. Still too expensive to reach it and too dangerous. I don't think it will always be that way. Plus, if it starts causing problems we will be forced to clean it up.

I also imagine, when we start colonizing space there will be an Interplanetary Internet. A special interest group already exists.
http://ipnsig.org/
InterPlanetary Networking Special Interest Group (IPNSIG)

I pay $62 @mo for about 15megs thru AT&T U-Verse.
I watch a lot of movies.
Thru the years I've learned how to get the best speed possible.

Many people don't realize most internet connections are not at top speed.
Bandwidth costs money. No matter your ISP max speed, you can only connect as fast as the site has capacity. Many sites limit their bandwidth.
There's also what is called net congestion. Think of it as road traffic.
There are peak bandwidth times and slow bandwidth times. Just like traffic at rush hour and traffic in the middle of the night.

Think of bandwidth as the diameter of the pipe the connection moves thru. Like water, the larger the bandwidth the more flow you get. On my computer, there is a wireless and a wired connection. That hardware and the software which runs it act as an orifice to increase or decrease the flow of connection.

There is software which optimizes that restriction.
I use TCPOptimizer (Its free)c= http://www.speedguide.net/downloads.php

There's also Speedtest by Ookla which connects with different servers around the world to test your bandwidth speed.
http://www.speedtest.net/

I use TCPOptimizer and Ookla Speedtest to tweak my connection speeds at different times of the day.

I'm curious to see if there are improvements when Starlink is up and running?

Thanx for an interesting discussion!