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A comment on Starlink Mini 2.

Re:Starlink Mini 2 by baoooooooooooo on Tuesday November 10, 2026 @02:11PM (#50444803)
4.5 hours on battery surprised me - cool that it's built in, but yeah these things are power hungry. 25-35W kinda surprised me.

I guess it makes sense, space is a long way away after all...

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Re:Starlink Mini 2 by drum55 on Tuesday November 10, 2026 @02:27PM (#50445047)
They have to be able to actively melt snow too, which makes the draw much higher.
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Re:Starlink Mini 2 by lxgr on Tuesday November 10, 2026 @02:32PM (#50445120)
That part is almost certainly optional on the Mini.
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Re:Starlink Mini 2 by lxgr on Tuesday November 10, 2026 @02:31PM (#50445109)
Distance alone isn’t the real issue (newer Pixel phones can talk to GEO, which is 100 times farther out than Starlink in LEO!), bandwidth over distance is.
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