Huh, so they recently raised $850M just before end of February, at $74B valuation. Anyone have an educated guess on why they raised more so soon after that? Maybe some investors threw money at them at a much higher valuation?
I'm sitting here with a beta terminal that regularly does 310 Mbps down and 16-20 Mbps upstream, with 0.25% (1/4th of 1%) packet loss to seattle over a 3 hour period, so I'm fairly optimistic.
Unless they're artificially capping you, that bandwidth number should go down as the user/satellite ratio gets worse, no?
Those look like really good stats but my concern is that the satellites are likely to have a muxing limit where performance eventually degrades with more users.
Even if Starlink was only 20Mbps down and 4Mbps up, and you could do those sorts of speeds any time in the day, it would still be amazingly better for the consumer tier price ($95-140/mo) compared to a hughesnet or viasat type product.
Maybe that’s how Musk will solve global warming launch enough satellites to block a sufficient percentage of the illumination the earth receives.
The sats are not detectable by human eye and are totally dark in the sky once in position. Even amateur astronomers would have a very hard time finding them.
Maybe if you really look for them, you could potentially see them in twilight but you would be very unlikely to notice those even if there were 100k of them.
The actual practical limited is how much data they can get between sat and terminals. For one cell, all terminals in that cell receive all data sent to that cell. Meaning your terminal also gets all the data from your neighbor.
There is a max. bandwidth to one cell, so that bandwidth divided by the number of terminals is the limiting factor.
We don't know exactly how large that number is.
That is why this is not a good system for high density application.
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> heir valuation punished when the economy recovers and the fed starts raising interest rates,
I said, when the economy crashes not recovers
As an individual... dunno I'm not a financial advisor. But BTC's future would seem closely tied to the tech bubble, so I certainly would not see that as a hedge in general. Usually in recessions people run into groceries and other essentials.