Re:Setting up Starlink
by yardie on Saturday April 10, 2021 @08:52AM
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Have you seen what they do to install just a few blocks of 5G antennas? Ripping up pavement, trenching fiber and power. And that is just in a high density city.
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4G does not require as dense a cell network as 5G.
My in laws live In the middle of nowhere. Their option for many years was 3G and eventually 4G. Having to visit them, 4G was just unbearable. Eventually ATT said they could just barely get 1.5Mbps down service.
That was superior to the 4G service they got. Just because it is 4G doesn’t mean it is services well and not overloaded even in rural areas.
Starlink will be the first real viable high speed connection they will have ever been able to get
My dad's house in Maine is at the very end of a DSL connection. He get up to about 1Mbps down with a tailwind--which is barely usable even for non-video. I couldn't really work from the house. (And there's essentially no cell service at all.) And the neighbors further down the road basically have nothing at all other than conventional satellite.)