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Re:Starlink WiFi Router FCC Approved by gnopgnip on Wednesday July 15, 2020 @01:26AM (#23841668)
That isn't how the math works out for an ISP. You can serve on the order of 50k customers on a 20gbit/sec uplink.
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Re:Starlink WiFi Router FCC Approved by Reason077 on Wednesday July 15, 2020 @02:12AM (#23841906)
Not when you’re promising them each gigabit speeds, though. Which many ISPs do now days.
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Re:Starlink WiFi Router FCC Approved by gnopgnip on Wednesday July 15, 2020 @04:05AM (#23842497)
On average, end users use about the same amount of bandwidth regardless of what speed plan they are on. Then planning is based on average and peak bandwidth
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Re:Starlink WiFi Router FCC Approved by fourthark on Wednesday July 15, 2020 @05:47AM (#23843081)
Usually not a promise, usually “best effort”.
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