don't you just love it when you buy a product that doesn't solve the problem
it says it's going to that was sarcasm that's what many folks are experiencing
with starlink the satellite internet project from Elon Musk That was supposed
to revolutionize internet access in areas with bad infrastructure but this
past July customers were reporting speeds of less than one megabit per
second what is this 2002 where are all the frosted tips and yes satellite
internet has traditionally been notoriously slow especially for the
prices you pay but starlink was touted as a solution to this as it uses a
constellation of satellites that are much closer to Earth than the satellites
used by Legacy providers like viasad and HughesNet starlink has advertised speeds
between 100 and 200 megabits per second with latency as low as 20 milliseconds
fast enough for gaming and video calls which are applications that often
sputter to the point of being unusable over a typical satellite connection our
own testing we did in early 2021 showed that starlink did indeed deliver a
usable gaming experience so why are so many people now reporting problems see
it's like this starlink currently has over 3 000 satellites in low earth orbit
and that sounds like a lot especially when you consider ViaSat and HughesNet
only use 12 satellites combined but
SpaceX is planning to one day have tens of thousands of satellites in the sky
why in the world do they need so many when their competitors make do with just
a handful well because they're so close to the Earth their line of sight to the
ground is much more limited than far away satellites to provide truly
worldwide coverage starlink may need as many as 42 000 satellites at some point
the current lack of coverage combined with the fact that these satellites
themselves are quite small only about one-fifth the weight of a Honda Civic
means that they simply don't have the aggregate capacity yet to deal with a
growing customer base but just how bad has it gotten in terms of speed we'll
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quarter of 2022 download speeds for Starling customers in the United States
dropped nearly 30 megabits per second going from about 91 down to around 63 if
we're considering medians upload speeds and latency also suffered from more
modest yet still noticeable performance losses several customers in rural areas
complained that the falling speeds meant that they couldn't work effectively at
their jobs and this is after paying 110 bucks a month for the service on top of
a 600 charge for the initial hardware setup yikes these setback Acts were not
only frustrating for customers but they also caught the attention of the U.S
Federal Communications Commission which used starlink's declining performance as
a reason to refuse to give the company a grant of nearly 900 million dollars to
be fair Elon Musk did say that the network would have capacity limits
initially but he indicated the issues would be primarily centered around urban
areas not the rural ones where people have suffered from unacceptably slow
performance however the good news is that starlink is indeed continuing to
actively launch more satellites and does have approval from the FCC to launch up
to a total of around 12 000 of them and it's not like starlink is unusable for
everyone since they're still significantly faster than Legacy satellite internet services but still
with the amount of money starlink charges every month let's hope that it
doesn't scare too many people away before they complete their Network there's still a few spots in the upper
atmosphere I'd hate to see them go to waste thanks for watching this video so
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