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[โ€“] [email protected] 140 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Don't let the fascists fool you, there are alternatives to Starlink. Eutelsat in France, Telesat in Canada and Inmarsat in the UK, just to name a few examples.

[โ€“] [email protected] 21 points 1 month ago (3 children)

Why is starlink being used, do you know?

[โ€“] learningduck 26 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

My guess is better coverage and latency with its sheer number of satellites.

They use low earth orbit, which require them to use more satellites, but lowered latency.

[โ€“] [email protected] 15 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Technically, and this is purely semantics, coverage is the major downside to starlink. They are faster, though.

The coverage of satellites has an exponential factor of the distance of that satellite to earth. If you had the satellite further out then its signal could reach a wider area before being cut off by the curvature of the earth. However, as the distance increases, so does latency.

[โ€“] [email protected] 23 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Now, I don't know, but I would assume its the latency. Starlink has a (impressively) low ping of < 100ms, while existing alternatives usually have 600ms+. Now, that's only relevant if they are using it for stuff like flying drones.

[โ€“] [email protected] 14 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I think you'd notice half a second even just browsing the Web.

[โ€“] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago

Yes, but a wep page loading slow isn't critical. Controlling armed drones in a battle is.

[โ€“] [email protected] 12 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Starlink has enough uplink to be able to handle live video streams and a latency low enough to do this with simple tools.

Iโ€™m not sure if that still happens, but Iโ€™ve seen some pictures of Ukrainian command bunkers literally getting drone feeds using discord screen share.

[โ€“] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago

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