Starlink review, four months in

Re:Starlink review, four months in by tzs on Thursday July 22, 2021 @07:33PM (#27925589)

The total aggregate bandwidth Starlink will have when their entire constellation of satellites is deployed and the number of satellites that will be visible at a given location at a given time place an upper limit on the number of customers they can have even with overselling bandwidth.

In the US their plans are to be able to support something like 5 million customers. That's less than 5% of the number of customers Comcast has.

It really is by design meant for people in areas that do not have terrestrial broadband.

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Re:Starlink review, four months in by portillo on Thursday July 22, 2021 @09:20PM (#27926251)

This is exactly right!

I think that 5M is a high number (at least with the current number of satellites and their architecture), specially if they do not apply data caps.

I would say that 1M customers in the US is a more reasonable figure. If they hit these number, I expect the performance to degrade significantly.

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Re:Starlink review, four months in by HWR_14 on Friday July 23, 2021 @10:33AM (#27931105)

I thought something like 20% of America did not have terrestrial broadband. At 5 million this is a giant change, but not as universal as I originally thought.

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