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Elon Musk says SpaceX Starlink satellite broadband beta testing starts in a few months:
This week [SpaceX] launched another batch of 60 satellites to bring the total size of its growing Starlink broadband constellation to more than 400. While it has the go-ahead to launch more than 12,000 satellites in the coming years, Musk said Wednesday that a "private beta" test of the service will begin in about three months, followed by a public beta about three months later for testers at northern latitudes.
In response to a Twitter user, Musk said Germany qualifies as far enough north, which could mean that much of northern Europe, Canada and the northernmost parts of the US may be eligible to try the service.
There is only so much bandwidth per satellite, so your pizza-box-sized transceiver would experience more congestion and lower throughput in an urban area than it would in a rural setting.
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(Score: 4, Interesting) by edIII on Friday April 24 2020, @09:44PM (1 child)
Exactly what I'm going to do. The moment I can get reliable Internet access so I can continue to work, I can move that far out.
I've already got family living like that, just without Internet. For years, there was zero comm service of any kind. Had to travel 2 hours before you could get to a phone to speak to anyone. Now there are a few long range towers that go by them on the road, and although there quite a few miles away, we eke out a small enough signal to talk on some days.
Technically, lunchtime is at any moment. It's just a wave function.
(Score: 2) by hendrikboom on Saturday April 25 2020, @01:39PM
My wife and I considered a move into the countryside a decade or so ago.
The issues? For me, lack of internet connexion.
For her, access to tertiary-scale medical facilities (she was a haemotologist).
-- hendrik