On 2/28/22 4:29 PM, Karl Auer wrote:
On Mon, 2022-02-28 at 16:17 -0800, Michael Thomas wrote:
As a practical matter how does this help? You need to have base stations/dishes, right? Anyone with a dish and power can connect to the Internet. That's it.
If a dish owner chooses to allow too many people to share their uplink, then they will run into capacity problems - the Starlink systems are designed more for households than towns.
There are beefy uplinks, but they are Starlink's, not consumer-owned. Without them, Starlink would be an isolated network.
Here in rural Oz I know quite a few people who are early adopters of Starlink and they have been very happy with it. Of course, as the network starts supporting millions instead of thousands, that may change. And I'm guessing the number of beefy uplinks will increase, though they would I imagine be placed in stable geopolitical areas.
That was my intuition. It might help strategic locations but won't be a panacea. And of course this could be the mother of all success disasters were there to be enough dishes. Mike