I took down my Starlink dish (but haven't cancelled)

Re:I took down my Starlink dish (but haven't cancelled) by reportingsjr on Thursday February 03, 2022 @10:28AM (#30193625)

Due to the design of satellite based internet they are fundamentally limited on how many dishes they can support in a certain area while still achieving advertised bandwidth rates.

There is a very, very high probability that if they allowed people to move starlink transceivers/dishes around that a number of areas would end up with higher concentrations than wanted, and starlink would have a lot of angry customers.

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Re:I took down my Starlink dish (but haven't cancelled) by softwarebeware on Thursday February 03, 2022 @12:00PM (#30195004)

I can just imagine what Burning Man would look like under a sea of Starlink dishes and still no one can get bandwidth.

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Re:I took down my Starlink dish (but haven't cancelled) by ianai on Thursday February 03, 2022 @11:43AM (#30194733)

I wonder if a minimal location change rate or policy would work? If if your coordinates don’t change often enough then you get rate limited gradually down to a HughesNet rate. Want mobility? Then it’s 1/10th the speed while you’re outside your home region. Stay in a region long enough and you get the worst rates or a change of region. Oh and charge differently for different regions.

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