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Re:SpaceX engineers in Fiji for six months by throw6622 on Friday February 04, 2022 @06:39PM (#30215113)
This is not a good look for Kacific. Tonga already had a contract with them to implement satellite internet before the eruption. It seems like their ability to actually deploy their technology was so poor SpaceX can beat them starting from square 1. One of the many ways Starlink will disrupt the best laid plans.
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Re:SpaceX engineers in Fiji for six months by e4e78a06 on Friday February 04, 2022 @06:56PM (#30215287)
It looks like the contracted amount from Kacific was 1 Gbps and the previous fiber cable was offering 10 Gbps. It doesn't seem implausible that a single prioritized Starlink Premium terminal could deliver at least 1 Gbps and that would be very easy to fly in and setup.

Side note, it's really incredible that an entire island got by on 10 Gbps of bandwidth.

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Re:SpaceX engineers in Fiji for six months by selectodude on Friday February 04, 2022 @07:04PM (#30215366)
It's only 100k people. I'm sure nobody is able to pull huge bandwidth but even if every man, woman, and child on the island was hammering away at it 24/7, that's 100kbit per person. Slow, but usable.
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Re:SpaceX engineers in Fiji for six months by darknavi on Friday February 04, 2022 @08:08PM (#30215932)
Home-labbers in Tonga getting sweaty palms.
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Re:SpaceX engineers in Fiji for six months by dillondoyle on Friday February 04, 2022 @08:42PM (#30216168)
I wonder if netflix could fly in one of their CDN boxes.
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Re:SpaceX engineers in Fiji for six months by gxt on Saturday February 05, 2022 @11:50AM (#30222945)
Would you have them eat cake too?
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Re:SpaceX engineers in Fiji for six months by rootsudo on Saturday February 05, 2022 @02:54PM (#30225143)
Not really, you assume that everyone in the world is the same as you. Much of the world is still using pre 4G technology and pipes with cell phones that have 512mb ram and possibly 32gb of memory (Total.)

Then you also have to realize what is the most consumption and usage - unlike most countries it is not streaming in general.

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