[Starlink] one dish per household is silly.

Alexandre Petrescu alexandre.petrescu at gmail.com
Fri Nov 10 23:42:36 EST 2023



Le 10/11/2023 à 13:21, Inemesit Affia via Starlink a écrit :
> Starlink terms of service as at launch with the round dishes required 
> each user to pay regardless of the number of dishes. Not unusual 
> compared to other ISP's.
> 
> Of course you can share regardless. Cruise liners use 6 to 12 dishes to 
> deliver service to thousands. And there's people using it for free WiFi 
> in restaurants and airplanes and schools

Are we sure we dont have a different set of terms of conditions...

Alex

> 
> On Fri, Nov 10, 2023, 12:44 PM Dave Taht via Starlink 
> <starlink at lists.bufferbloat.net <mailto:starlink at lists.bufferbloat.net>> 
> wrote:
> 
>     My objection to steve song's analysis here:
> 
>     https://manypossibilities.net/2023/11/starlink-and-inequality/
>     <https://manypossibilities.net/2023/11/starlink-and-inequality/>
> 
>     A) Am I the only person left in the world that shares his wifi? A
>     single dishy can easily serve dozens of people which lowers the cost
>     per person enormously. Starlink has limited density per cell in the
>     first place, so hanging a wired or wireless bridge off of it and
>     covering a small town or merely multiple houses, not much of a
>     problem. I know of refuge centers in the ukraine serving hundreds of
>     people as one example.
> 
>     B) I keep seeing estimates of service life being 5 years, when at the
>     moment I see it being 10 or more.
> 
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>     Dave Täht CSO, LibreQos
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