how starlink works (highly technical)

2oldman wrote:

Gdetrailer wrote:
Yeah, you may need to dial back your expectations, a lot.

Your first link contains posts from years ago. New satellites are going up all the time.

It's not hard to find negative comments on anything on the internet, especially from you. I'll take my chances.

:R

The SECOND link, however is very recent(August 23, 2022) unless you are living under a rock or putting your fingers in your ears while yelling "LA LA LA LA"..

I read both sides of the coin, not the "pie in the sky dreams" or what tickles your ears..

While there many "happy" folks who do not care that they lose speed or connectivity, there are many very unhappy folks once they spent nearly $1K for hardware only to find the service has been oversold in places and the speed drops into the abyss and those folks do care.

A lot of marketing double speak has gone into Starlink to get folks emotions to ignore "the man behind the curtain".

FCC has pulled back the curtain and revoked the broadband expansion grant once they discovered the truth.. That is very telling and you should take note of that.

Installing and operating tens of thousands of satellite is not a cheap affair, neither is all the ground stations required to keep those birds in flight.

Star link has already abandoned the current idea of tens of thousands of satellites as they have obviously figured out that their "pie in the sky" dreams are unobtainable as you scale the thing up to cover the entire world..

So they are now developing a much larger second generation satellite which has much larger antennas which will require fewer birds in the air and to make this change more cost effective to build and roll out they have partnered with T Mobil.

HERE

By the way that article is from Aug 25, 2022 so it is "current" as you like..

If you look closely that whole thing is all made of "theoretical" type statements.. In the computer industry that is called "vaporware"..

An article dated Aug26, 2022..

HERE

"But launching Coverage Above and Beyond will require going above and beyond those already-launched Starlinks. T-Mobile’s service will need the larger second-generation Starlinks that SpaceX plans to start launching on both Falcon 9 and the upcoming Starship."

You can now put your head back into the sand and ignore reality.