[Starlink] ordered my dishy!!

[Nathan Owens]

That seems like a pretty good deal, only a small additional price (+5% to
the service price) to pay for the ability to get high speed, (mostly) low
latency connection where previously not possible. I think it’s pretty
impressive they got a phased array which transmits >500km down to 65W.

—Nathan


On Thu, Jun 24, 2021 at 8:16 PM Daniel AJ Sokolov <daniel at sokolov.eu.org>
wrote:

> On 2021-06-24 at 6:36 p.m., Nathan Owens wrote:
> > The newer dish model pulls closer to 65-70W, fwiw. Might pull more in
> snow
> > melt mode
>
> That is still significant. About 600 kWh a year, which would cost me
> about USD 66.
>
> Plus all the electricity required for snow/ice melt - of which I'll need
> a lot, given that I live North of 60°.
>
> YMMV, depending on your cost of electricity.
> Daniel
>
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