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Re:I took down my Starlink dish (but haven't cancelled) by jagger27 on Thursday February 03, 2022 @10:36AM (#30193740)
It’s about the base station capacity, in theory. Though it seems super unlikely that an address that’s only 70 miles away would be on a different base station.

This will change dramatically once sat-to-sat laser comms are fully online as it will put more base stations “in range”.

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Re:I took down my Starlink dish (but haven't cancelled) by jacquesm on Thursday February 03, 2022 @11:24AM (#30194407)
I'm not so sure about that. At 200 Km altitude that the footprint of the satellite wouldn't be all that large depending on the phase array arrangement. It might not be able to swing that far sideways and still get enough signal strength. These antennas don't move physically, the use phase based signal steering (black magic to me).
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