it's not only about the power density. it's more about the satellite (and ground station) capacity, and interference among these dishes and with other devices in the same frequency band
only starlink knows for sure its current capacity. we can do some inference and envelope estimation. if you have 100 households nearby, a (mini) "community gateway" might be better -- J Pan, UVic CSc, ECS566, 250-472-5796 (NO VM), p...@uvic.ca, Web.UVic.CA/~pan On Wed, Nov 15, 2023 at 12:05 AM Jim Forster <j...@connectivitycap.com> wrote: > > Thanks, that’s helpful. > > Would is also be the case that “100 dishes in 3km^2” is ok? That’s 100x the > power density… > > — Jim > > On Nov 15, 2023, at 9:07 AM, J Pan <p...@uvic.ca> wrote: > > an old starlink capacity rule of thumb is "100 dishes in a 300 km^2 > cell". not sure about the latest as there are more satellites now, and > starlink can shuffle beam among nearby cells too > > _______________________________________________ Starlink mailing list Starlink@lists.bufferbloat.net https://lists.bufferbloat.net/listinfo/starlink
