StarLink is leaving Beta

[100Coogn]

I stand corrected.

Regardless, it's almost always aircraft, not sats that get in my images.

It might be an issue for certain imaging projects covering extremely large areas of sky like asteroid search, but probably less that normal air traffic.

And sat's are a completely regular and predictable pattern.  It can be cancelled out with software just like the radio telescopes have databases of satellites to discount any detected signals from man-made objects.

In any case, it doesn't matter.  They are not going to outlaw satellites or commercial air traffic so imagers will work around the issues.  The world moves on.

I'm all for Starlink.  Just think it's a bit too expensive for the average consumer, at the moment.

Coogan

[Mister Fork]

That's pretty disrespectful to all those small rural communities hard working Americans who's kids don't get the same opportunities as others because they don't have internet where they live.  It's more of a utility now than a luxury.  Too much of education and employment is tied to it.  There is a lot of economic harm to not having it.

Getting reliable internet across our farmlands is as important as getting them electrification was 100 ys ago. 

Those people grow your food and raise your beef.

What he said. I live in the boondocks working at a rural vocational college. Internet speeds blow donkey doo here for rural farmers and people in our community. Reliable and affordable internet opens up a whole new world for people living here.  I'm paying ~$200US a month for my internet - which is 30X slower than I had living in a major urban centre.   

The struggle is real.  That said, there are perks. Like CptTrips - astronomy out here is NOT a struggle.

[CptTrips]

I'm all for Starlink.  Just think it's a bit too expensive for the average consumer, at the moment.

Coogan

It's expensive.  If someone had fiber or even solid cable service, I wouldn't recommend Starlink.

A lot of Americans don't have those options.  For 10 years I had good enough cell reception out at my land that I used that.  But the last couple of years, that went down hill.  I think maybe they lost a tower and there weren't enough people on that cell to bother replacing it.  Now my connection is crap.

So it's expensive, unless you have no other option.  It's the main thing keeping me from living out at that property more of the year because I can no long work remotely from there easily.

Don't know how all my neighbors kids fared during the pandemic when they couldn't attend classes yet had not broadband for remote learning.

I can't imagine doing a job search from out there and not be able to attend Zoom interviews.  I don't think that's going to change even after the pandemic.  I think most all professional interviews are going to stay Zoom.  It's so much more logistically efficient.  And remote work is now going to stay a big thing.  Rural folks don't want broadband just for porn and youtube any more.  More and more, people NEED internet to function properly in our society.

[100Coogn]

It's expensive.  If someone had fiber or even solid cable service, I wouldn't recommend Starlink.

A lot of Americans don't have those options.  For 10 years I had good enough cell reception out at my land that I used that.  But the last couple of years, that went down hill.  I think maybe they lost a tower and there weren't enough people on that cell to bother replacing it.  Now my connection is crap.

So it's expensive, unless you have no other option.  It's the main thing keeping me from living out at that property more of the year because I can no long work remotely from there easily.

Don't know how all my neighbors kids fared during the pandemic when they couldn't attend classes yet had not broadband for remote learning.

I can't imagine doing a job search from out there and not be able to attend Zoom interviews.  I don't think that's going to change even after the pandemic.  I think most all professional interviews are going to stay Zoom.  It's so much more logistically efficient.  And remote work is now going to stay a big thing.  Rural folks don't want broadband just for porn and youtube any more.  More and more, people NEED internet to function properly in our society.

Hopefully the cost will drop once they get all of their sattelites up there.  I belive the target is around 40,000.

Coogan

[zack1234]

So some parts of the US don’t get broadband?

 

Peasants

[Shuffler]

So some parts of the US don’t get broadband?

 

Peasants

You folks in those small countries only need one antenna.   

[Vulcan]

You folks in those small countries only need one antenna.   

antenna? What is this antenna you speak of?

Don't you get all your media over fibre optic delivered digitally in 4k like us small countries?

[Eagler]

When a country is not even as large as a state many things should  be easier...

https://www.mylifeelsewhere.com/country-size-comparison/united-kingdom/texas-usa

Eagler