Starlink Mini 2

Re:Starlink Mini 2 by loufe on Tuesday November 10, 2026 @10:17PM (#50449380)

I work at a remote sub-arctic hard rock mine. Almost a decade ago when I started there was a single a 25mbps downlink shared between the business and 800 on-site people's personal rooms. I oftentimes couldn't get a message to family to send during the evening fury. Starlink was an incredible change in quality of life.

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Re:Starlink Mini 2 by Razengan on Wednesday November 11, 2026 @04:24AM (#50451276)

It's amazing how you can find people from so wildly different lines of work and life here :)

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Re:Starlink Mini 2 by Cthulhu_ on Wednesday November 11, 2026 @04:48AM (#50451492)

Ironically I'd bet a lot of that traffic wasn't necessary. I knew a guy once, worked in ops but used to work for the military, setting up the sattelite internet connection of a base in Afghanistan. 90% or more of the bandwidth used was porn, he said it would've been so much cheaper to send a container full of DVDs instead.

I just hope they're not relying on the internet for anything tactical.

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Re:Starlink Mini 2 by syshyk on Thursday November 12, 2026 @03:12AM (#50464392)

Probably had to go through 100mb+ of pages on the likes of facebook to get a message out, instead of just using something akin to msn messenger. The internet isn't very efficient these days.

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