<div dir="auto">StarLink may be providing layer 2 connectivity rather than IP. A ground station can act as a receiver in this case in Tonga and provide connectivity directly to the Tonga Telco network. Using ground station type antenna may help with performance. </div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Tue, Feb 8, 2022, 02:20 David Lang <<a href="mailto:david@lang.hm">david@lang.hm</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">On Tue, 8 Feb 2022, Ulrich Speidel wrote:<br>
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> I'm actually quite pleased to see Starlink in Fiji, if only so they start <br>
> thinking about how they'll supply Pacific Islands, which to date they simply <br>
> don't.<br>
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Long term the answer is the laser-enabled satellites will not need ground <br>
stations nearby, so they will cover all these sorts of really remote areas.<br>
<br>
They just don't have enough of them up yet to start providing coverage, so they <br>
have to rush the setup of a new ground station for now.<br>
<br>
David Lang<br>
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