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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.

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.