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Elon Musk: SpaceX will double Starlink's satellite internet speeds in 2021:
SpaceX CEO Elon Musk said on Twitter Monday that his company's satellite internet service, Starlink, will offer speeds close to 300 Mbps later in 2021. That's roughly twice as fast as currently advertised, and would represent a significant step forward for the service as it seeks to deliver high-speed internet to underserved regions across the globe.
[...] Latency, a measure of how long it takes your internet signal to travel to space and back, will also drop to around 20ms this year, Musk added.
[...] Musk went on to reply to another user who asked for a coverage map, telling them that Starlink will cover "most of Earth by end of year, all by next year." From there, Musk said, it's all about "densifying coverage," though he noted that the satellite internet coverage is best suited for regions with low to medium population density.
[...] The $99-per-month service, which also charges $500 as the initial equipment cost, is accepting preorders for customers in parts of Canada, the UK and the northwest US between latitudes 45 and 53 degrees North, as well as other select locations.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday February 23 2021, @02:31PM (2 children)
The article doesn't offer much about what they actually have working.
1000 birds serving 10000 customers between 45 and 53 North. Available service will increase from 100 to 300Mbits.
For the change from 100 to 300, will the road change, or only the speed limit.
So, where does one go to see what they actually have? (Speeds and feeds.)
I'm betting they are limited by ground station to sat b/w.
Is there a map of the ground stations?
Perhaps a set of IP addresses to traceroute?
(Score: -1, Troll) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday February 23 2021, @04:10PM
But think about it - wherever you drive in your new Tesla (200 mile radius) you'll be able to stream spotify at 300mb/s.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday February 23 2021, @08:41PM
Ground stations provide the connection to the internet backbone so they are a bottleneck just like with any other ISP. If Starlink's laser based satellite-to-satellite system works out then they will have a lot more flexibility in where they locate those stations than any ground based network, but they still need regulatory approval and a licence for each station.
I don't know of any maps. It seems that Starlink doesn't publish that information, and frankly I can't blame them. With all the hysteria around cellphone towers I shudder to think how the derp brigade is going to react to 'space rays' or whatever nonsense they come up with.