<div dir="auto">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.<div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">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</div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Fri, Nov 10, 2023, 12:44 PM Dave Taht via Starlink <<a href="mailto:starlink@lists.bufferbloat.net">starlink@lists.bufferbloat.net</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">My objection to steve song's analysis here:<br>
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<a href="https://manypossibilities.net/2023/11/starlink-and-inequality/" rel="noreferrer noreferrer" target="_blank">https://manypossibilities.net/2023/11/starlink-and-inequality/</a><br>
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A) Am I the only person left in the world that shares his wifi? A<br>
single dishy can easily serve dozens of people which lowers the cost<br>
per person enormously. Starlink has limited density per cell in the<br>
first place, so hanging a wired or wireless bridge off of it and<br>
covering a small town or merely multiple houses, not much of a<br>
problem. I know of refuge centers in the ukraine serving hundreds of<br>
people as one example.<br>
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B) I keep seeing estimates of service life being 5 years, when at the<br>
moment I see it being 10 or more.<br>
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Oct 30: <a href="https://netdevconf.info/0x17/news/the-maestro-and-the-music-bof.html" rel="noreferrer noreferrer" target="_blank">https://netdevconf.info/0x17/news/the-maestro-and-the-music-bof.html</a><br>
Dave Täht CSO, LibreQos<br>
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