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Re:SpaceX launches 60 more Starlink satellites by flexvision on Thursday June 04, 2020 @02:03PM (#23419751)
> huge Wifi antenna to connect to an open Wifi of a rural school a couple of kilometers away

That's impressive, but how did this work from the school's side? Wouldn't they need a huge wifi antenna too?

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Re:SpaceX launches 60 more Starlink satellites by nrki on Thursday June 04, 2020 @03:09PM (#23420525)
"huge" antennas usually have high gain, which increases your signal-to-noise ratio - both Rx and Tx.

So one can "hear" signals further away and "speak" softer than would.be normally necessary.

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Re:SpaceX launches 60 more Starlink satellites by pier25 on Thursday June 04, 2020 @02:23PM (#23419986)
They had regular wifi access points, nothing fancy.

The huge antenna [1] was connected to an Alfa R36 hotspot which was fairly powerful. I guess that's why it worked.

[1] https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/81Zwin2Z-ML...

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