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Re:Starlink WiFi Router FCC Approved by joe_the_user on Wednesday July 15, 2020 @12:29AM (#23841311)
I lived with satellite Internet for about seven months.

It's slow but still a bit faster than dial-up. You can watch short youtube videos but not movies - unless you like to wait.

The main problem is latency, so it's completely impossible to use your phone over wifi.

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Re:Starlink WiFi Router FCC Approved by Erlich_Bachman on Wednesday July 15, 2020 @03:14AM (#23842217)
You do know that Starlink is completely different because their satellites are not on geostationary orbits (but instead much closer to the earth), right?
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Re:Starlink WiFi Router FCC Approved by joe_the_user on Wednesday July 15, 2020 @05:52PM (#23852519)
Sure, the gp started out talking about regular satellite, that what I was commenting on.
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