how starlink works (highly technical)

2oldman wrote:
Phased-array antennas are amazing.

I'm camped near someone who has it, loves it. He did caution me that the view of the sky must be unobstructed, and even trees beside your rig can be an issue.

I'm ordering the RV version this week. No waiting for delivery right now. I'll be dumping Directv (getting too hard to aim the dish and I rarely watch it), and cutting my cell phone data plan WAY back.

Thanks Elon. I love new technology.

We've seen lots of them the last 2-3 months traveling around and people seem happy with them.

Our plan is very similar to yours (get the system and scale the cell phones way back).

Only difference is dragging our feet a bit as we will be heading overseas for the winter in a month and then up in Alaska next summer. Overseas, we will be in apartments with wifi or in cell coverage areas, so no need and from the online coverage maps, I can find, once you get north of around Edmonton, coverage largely ends (which makes sense, since they would presumably want to cover high population areas first because there are more customers).

I wouldn't be too worried about speeds. Even if the 100-300MB speeds are severely degraded in real life, it's still comparable or better than the 10-15MB you get with a 4G cell phone in good coverage areas (assuming the cell company doesn't throttle you for using too much data).