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Re:Starlink for RVs by yosito on Tuesday May 24, 2022 @07:50AM (#31490812)
This comment seems to make a lot of assumptions about the scarcity of bandwidth for Starlink. If there's enough bandwidth for everyone, why would deprioritization be needed?
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Re:Starlink for RVs by gangstead on Tuesday May 24, 2022 @12:18PM (#31494020)
Maybe the scarcity is temporary? According to wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Starlink#Constellation_design_... SpaceX has launched 2091 satellites and has FCC approval to launch 12,000 and a has filed for 30,000 more after that.
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Re:Starlink for RVs by neurostimulant on Tuesday May 24, 2022 @08:32AM (#31491134)
IIRC each satelite has ~20 gbps capacity, which might not be enough to serve locations with a dense number of subscribers such as big cities.
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Re:Starlink for RVs by zamadatix on Friday May 27, 2022 @02:16PM (#31532870)
If there were enough resources for everyone then by definition there couldn't be deprioritization as there is nobody to deprioritize you for and vice versa.
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