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Re:Starlink is now Accepting General Pre-orders by unionpivo on Thursday February 18, 2021 @05:52AM (#26178357)
I mean, you can get several houses together.

If you split between 5 houses, you still get decent bandwidth (you wont be watching 4k, but then again if you can afford 4k screens ...), and the price is 100 USD + 20 per month.

If you don't have any other option this might be decent alternative

Re:Starlink is now Accepting General Pre-orders by tuatoru on Thursday February 18, 2021 @09:15AM (#26180011)
> you wont be watching 4k

Netflix says you need 25 Mbps for "Ultra HD Quality"[1], so yes, you could watch a different 4K stream in every house simultaneously. And have 25 Mbps left over for other traffic.

Edit to add: Netflix is right.

If you can't get reliable 4K with a 25 Mbps connection, the most likely reasons are:

- First by a wide margin, is that you are using Wi-Fi to connect your display device. Don't do that. Use ethernet (at least until you have 802.11ax everywhere).

- Second, you have a flaky connection to your ISP. Misconfigured, marginal (e.g. DSL more than 2.5 kilometres from the cabinet) or in poor electrical condition.

- Third, you have neighbours regularly operating very large electric motors or electric arc welders.

- Fourth, your ISP doesn't know what it's doing, or is deliberately monkeying with your service to try to upsell you.

1. https://help.netflix.com/en/node/306

Re:Starlink is now Accepting General Pre-orders by Geee on Thursday February 18, 2021 @08:54AM (#26179791)
Yeah, lots of small villages in Africa or other poor countries will have shared Starlink connections.
Re:Starlink is now Accepting General Pre-orders by qayxc on Thursday February 18, 2021 @01:08PM (#26183299)
That remains to be seen. As it stands, these regions don't have the ability to pay for the service (no matter the price - they simply don't have access to bank accounts and credit cards).

This is something to keep in mind and not obvious to people living in 1st world countries.

Re:Starlink is now Accepting General Pre-orders by Geee on Thursday February 18, 2021 @03:00PM (#26184668)
They can pay with crypto. Obviously there are some hurdles too and they have to earn it first.