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Yeah, if it really does deliver ~25ms latency and up to 1GBPS, work from anywhere becomes much more literal. Currently a lot of remote work and things like multiplayer games are limited to areas with reliable broadband.

But if you can get that anywhere... it'll be amazing and have a profound effect.

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It will work from anywhere after about 90 more launches and thousands of ground relays being installed, and the antenna is the size of a watermelon.

So "anywhere" would be limited to vanlife on up, in a place that doesn't have trees, in the markets initially served, which will likely be rural US.

But starlink v2? I'll be on a cute Panamanian island :)

Do you know if being able to use it on a boat in the ocean will be part of v1 or v2?

I sail a bit, and I've always wanted to sail the world, but giving up a decent internet connection has always been the main deal-breaker.

v2 most likely. The currently launched satellites do not have cross-satellite links so the satellites can only provide service while they are within range of a ground station. The cross satellite links were originally planned for v1 but are behind schedule and nobody outside SpaceX knows what the current schedule is.

> in a place that doesn't have trees

What problems do trees cause for starlink?

I don't know anything specific a out starlink, but I have hundreds of days of experience trying to hit iridium sattelites while hiking in the wild. You need direct line-of-sight to sky.

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