From: David Lang <david@lang.hm>
To: Dave Taht <dave.taht@gmail.com>
Cc: Mike Puchol <mike@starlink.sx>, starlink@lists.bufferbloat.net
Subject: Re: [Starlink] Starlink for Tonga?
Date: Tue, 8 Feb 2022 11:12:26 -0800 (PST) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <26168q80-1s58-sq76-9p74-61r615r99no5@ynat.uz> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAA93jw5-R4Mw_mSQd_TK7hawVLH2Quhs+jWOwo=03MfOXkNEqQ@mail.gmail.com>
On Tue, 8 Feb 2022, Dave Taht wrote:
> What I don't quite understand is why a full-fledged ground station is
> needed to get dropped. (in a day after they have laser links)
>
> A simple dishy can do 300mbit down and over 20Mbit up. using a 32k
> codec that's quite a few voice calls, or cleared transactions.
>
> The difference between zero and some connectivity is quite a lot.
They don't have enough laser equipped satellites to provide coverage yet (Elon
commented that providing coverage is quite hard because of the lack of enough
laser satellites right now). They don't currently do dishy-to-dishy
communications.
So, long term you are right, a new ground station there wouldn't be needed (and
adds additional load to the Fiji underwater links, not desirable in the long
term), but in the short term, it's what's needed to provide service in the area.
David Lang
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2022-02-08 19:12 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 49+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2022-02-07 18:50 Daniel AJ Sokolov
2022-02-07 18:51 ` Nathan Owens
2022-02-07 19:05 ` Christian von der Ropp
2022-02-07 19:06 ` Nathan Owens
2022-02-07 20:38 ` Ulrich Speidel
2022-02-07 20:44 ` Ulrich Speidel
2022-02-10 7:53 ` Ulrich Speidel
2022-02-07 21:18 ` Ben Greear
2022-02-07 21:24 ` David Lang
2022-02-07 21:36 ` Mike Puchol
2022-02-07 22:22 ` Ulrich Speidel
2022-02-07 22:29 ` Mike Puchol
2022-02-07 23:36 ` Ulrich Speidel
2022-02-07 23:47 ` David Lang
2022-02-08 0:20 ` Ulrich Speidel
2022-02-08 1:20 ` David Lang
2022-02-08 4:46 ` Inemesit Affia
2022-02-08 6:25 ` Daniel AJ Sokolov
2022-02-08 7:30 ` Ulrich Speidel
2022-02-08 7:49 ` Daniel AJ Sokolov
2022-02-08 8:22 ` Ulrich Speidel
2022-02-08 8:47 ` Mike Puchol
2022-02-08 8:49 ` Daniel AJ Sokolov
2022-02-08 8:58 ` Mike Puchol
2022-02-08 9:05 ` Daniel AJ Sokolov
2022-02-08 9:10 ` Mike Puchol
2022-02-08 15:22 ` Sebastian Moeller
2022-02-08 10:11 ` Ulrich Speidel
2022-02-08 13:50 ` Christian von der Ropp
2022-02-08 15:28 ` Mike Puchol
2022-02-08 16:25 ` Dave Taht
2022-02-08 18:20 ` Gary E. Miller
2022-02-08 19:12 ` David Lang [this message]
2022-02-09 12:09 ` Ulrich Speidel
2022-02-09 19:28 ` [Starlink] Sunburp kills 40 starlink satellites Doc Searls
2022-02-09 19:51 ` Michael Richardson
2022-02-09 12:58 ` [Starlink] Starlink for Tonga? Ulrich Speidel
2022-02-18 5:04 ` Daniel AJ Sokolov
2022-02-18 7:27 ` Mike Puchol
2022-02-18 9:01 ` Ulrich Speidel
2022-04-19 11:57 ` Mike Puchol
2022-04-19 12:06 ` Dave Taht
2022-04-19 12:43 ` Ulrich Speidel
2022-04-20 1:06 ` Ulrich Speidel
2022-04-20 1:14 ` Jeremy Austin
2022-02-18 10:27 ` Ulrich Speidel
2022-02-18 12:48 ` Rich Brown
2022-02-18 15:43 ` Nathan Owens
2022-02-18 10:29 ` Ulrich Speidel
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