Musk files to provide Internet service from space

Re:Musk files to provide Internet service from space by joshontheweb on Tuesday June 09, 2015 @10:36PM (#9689755)

The ability to go off-grid is becoming more of a reality for me now. I'd love to be able to get a cabin in the middle of nowhere, slap some solar panels on top still have access to highspeed internet.

Even if you didn't want to go off-grid, this could open up a lot of developing countries to being more viable remote-working locations. I recently spent some time in Bali and considered moving there for awhile but ultimately couldn't solely because the internet was too slow and unreliable.

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Re:Musk files to provide Internet service from space by NamTaf on Tuesday June 09, 2015 @11:20PM (#9689881)

Isn't the internet by very definition a grid?

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Re:Musk files to provide Internet service from space by anamexis on Tuesday June 09, 2015 @11:56PM (#9689959)

By which definition? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Off-the-grid

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Re:Musk files to provide Internet service from space by NamTaf on Wednesday June 10, 2015 @12:05AM (#9689977)

The internet is a grid of computers to which you connect.

More than that though, conceptually "off-the-grid" means not accepting a utility serivce from a provider but rather catering for that yourself. An internet connection is arguably a utility, and you'd be accepting it from an ISP. That goes against the concept, which would suggest you should maintain your own isolated network of computers and not connect with the outside world.

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Re:Musk files to provide Internet service from space by Dylan16807 on Wednesday June 10, 2015 @01:08AM (#9690175)

You wouldn't have to be isolated. You could make connections, just not ones that depend on a centralized ISP.

But "off-the-grid" typically is talking about physical delivery over wires and pipes, not about things like wireless internet.

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