If they do what they're saying in the press and they price it right,
then maybe it'll beat fixed wireless.
I still don't know what they're planning to charge for it, and their
engineering challenges seem rather daunting to me. The FCC authorized
2ghz of bandwidth for the downlink. That sounds like a lot, but I'd
assume that just like us, they can't hit the same exact location with
the same channel from two AP's. So they have to handle frequency
coordination between thousands of moving AP's. I'm fuzzy on what
Hughesnet has, but I think between Ka and Ku band's it's around
2.25ghz. So Starlink has similar bandwidth.
The other thing is we're assuming more satellites = more capacity, but
again they have 2ghz of bandwidth for the downlink. I know many of us
have seen a big open warehouse or stadium with too many WiFi APs.
Across open space more isn't more. Their link budget may be better with
the shorter range, but they also have smaller antennas, and they have to
avoid stepping on themselves somehow (small channels?).
I know they have smart people there, but honestly I don't know.
Hughesnet has 600,000 subscribers in the USA and they're famously
shitty. I bet the early adopters of Starlink will be very happy, but
the real test will be when they have 600,000 subscribers. Right now I'm
impressed and surprised that they think they can do this. If they get to
half million subs and still aren't shitty then I promise I'll be
suitably impressed by their engineering talent. .....but I'm an eternal
doubter.
On 6/26/2020 10:03 AM, Steven Kenney wrote:
Anyone worried this could put us out of business? I'm not really
because I don't care how hot your signal is, you'll be going over
100KM into space. No way they'll get stable latency.
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WaveDirect Telecommunications
http://www.wavedirect.net
(519)737-WAVE (9283)
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*From: *"David Coudron" <david.coud...@advantenon.com>
*To: *"af" <af@af.afmug.com>
*Sent: *Friday, June 26, 2020 9:56:09 AM
*Subject: *Re: [AFMUG] Starlink
We had done some poking around to see about the same thing about 2
months ago. We didn’t find much, but we’d be pretty interested in
seeing of this is a possibility. We are wondering if it would be
more feasible/cheaper than building out a new tower site for 2-3
subscribers surrounded by trees and will be the most the tower will
every have on it. Or if you can make any money on it.
Regards,
David Coudron
*From:* AF <af-boun...@af.afmug.com> *On Behalf Of * Steven Kenney
*Sent:* Friday, June 26, 2020 8:48 AM
*To:* af <af@af.afmug.com>
*Subject:* [AFMUG] Starlink
Anyone looking into starlink to see if you can partner with them? I
heard there may be a way of being a reseller or to lease bandwidth
through their system. I'd like to find out more information.
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WaveDirect Telecommunications
http://www.wavedirect.net
(519)737-WAVE (9283)
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