• corroded@lemmy.world
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    1 month ago

    This makes me think that the Starlink system is very poorly designed. I know there are hundreds of satellites, and a large number of base stations.

    Even if a large chunk of the satellites were taken out and a few base stations failed, shouldn’t the system keep working, just over a different path?

    This sounds very much not like a hardware failure, but more like somebody fucked up.

    • Not a replicant@lemmy.world
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      1 month ago

      Got a nice fibre-optic connection, have you? Try throttling that to <10Mbps and you might understand what some people have to deal with. DSL at 10Mbps from an evil corporation, or 150Mbps from an evil corporation, hmmmmm, what a choice.

      It’s easy to shit on the owner, but have some sympathy for folk who don’t have a reasonable alternative.