<div><div dir="auto">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. </div></div><div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">—Nathan</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Thu, Jun 24, 2021 at 8:16 PM Daniel AJ Sokolov <<a href="mailto:daniel@sokolov.eu.org" target="_blank">daniel@sokolov.eu.org</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left-width:1px;border-left-style:solid;padding-left:1ex;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204)">On 2021-06-24 at 6:36 p.m., Nathan Owens wrote:<br>
> The newer dish model pulls closer to 65-70W, fwiw. Might pull more in snow<br>
> melt mode<br>
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That is still significant. About 600 kWh a year, which would cost me <br>
about USD 66.<br>
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Plus all the electricity required for snow/ice melt - of which I'll need <br>
a lot, given that I live North of 60°.<br>
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YMMV, depending on your cost of electricity.<br>
Daniel<br>
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