how starlink works (highly technical)

pianotuna wrote:

valhalla360 wrote:


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).

My cell phone from Sasktel does up to 85 mb down and 40 up. My Bell cell phone does 25 down and 15 up.

However, at supper time that changes due to congestion at the tower which is 400 feet from me. Then neither phone is what I'd call fast. However I can watch netflix with either phone when they are throttled. Sasktel throttle is 2 ms and Bell is 0.54 ms.

Wow, that's good. When I do speed tests, it's often in the 1-10mb range. When I use too much and they throttle, it's down around 0.5mb. While it works, there is often buffering or we have to reduce the video quality to make it work.

So if they are offering 100-300mb...even if it throttles back by 90%, that's still 10-30mb, which is plenty for us to have a couple of videos streaming simultaneous (we usually don't do that).