5G Just Got Weird

Re:5G Just Got Weird by magicsmoke on Sunday August 09, 2020 @01:05PM (#24101002)

Starlink will probably do better than 5G for access to rural areas because you don't need to build out a physical cable. In highly dense urban areas with large numbers of simultaneous users, 5G is a better fit.

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Re:5G Just Got Weird by dylan604 on Sunday August 09, 2020 @02:43PM (#24101832)

Have the 5G towers connect to Starlink rather than running the cabling to them.

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Re:5G Just Got Weird by selectodude on Sunday August 09, 2020 @05:36PM (#24103130)

That doesn't really fix the total bandwidth capacity issue though.

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Re:5G Just Got Weird by kalleboo on Sunday August 09, 2020 @10:44PM (#24104958)

I wonder if a tower with a larger array of Starlink antennas could connect to multiple satellites and get more performance than the pizzabox-sized consumer receivers

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Re:5G Just Got Weird by thu2111 on Monday August 10, 2020 @05:48AM (#24107361)

In many cases you can link base stations to other downlink points using lasers or really tight beams though. It's not like they can only go upwards.

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