> UNLIMITED SERVICE LOCATIONS
Almost seems designed to get people's hopes up only to squash them again. What people have been asking for is an RV/camping/sailing Starlink they can use moving, and that product has yet to materialize.
Announcing that:
> Order as many Starlinks as needed and manage all of your service locations, no matter how remote, from a single account.
Is niche, and is only going to confuse people waiting for true travel-Starlink.
What people? You? Most people want usable Internet at home.
Also, you can use a Starlink on the move just fine, just like I did. Keep changing your service location before you arrive. Takes a second, there are no limits (that I have found).
https://blog.oxplot.com/powering-starlink-on-the-go-with-tes...
(don't try to pick on all the mods I've done - you can use a regular inverter)
What an odd comment. Seems like a narrow way to blame the marketing. And, a narrow way to cherry pick what doesn't fit your description of what Starlink should be and shouldn't be. In truth, Starlink is an absolute game changer for the entire world. Mobile or not. I think you need to think about rural people that have to deal with shitty DSL. 20-40 ms (You can go on YT and find people benchmarking it - average I've seen is around 40-50 ms [1]) ping is amazing and 350 mbps is exceptional compared to the status quo.
Also others complaining about delays is strange. It's a fricking satellite constellation in the sky. Give them some time and slack.
your capacity math is so far off it's just crazy. if they had a million times the capacity of current satellites they would have around 250 petabits per second.
You could blast out a 100Hz-BW CW signal at 1MW, but you will not be able to send much on it, even if you can receive it from the Moon.
There are other limits too, like channel concurrency, which you can see in action in places like busy stations or stadia where your phone can't connect and your Bluetooth headphones become unreliable. I don't know how many simultaneous connections a single Starlink transceiver can handle, though.
Are they, though? (Seriously, I once looked at them, and promptly concluded that unless I wanted to give up streaming video and pulling docker images, there was no point since I'd blow through the data cap in a week or two.)
EDIT: To clarify as to why the roof doesn't work, the trees are at least 4 times the height of my roof.
Or they may live out of a motor home, but it only moves to travel between their regular winter destination and their regular summer destination. They stay in the same two parks all year except for the 4 days of travel in between.
Millions of USians fall into these two demographics. I'm sure plenty outside the US do, too.
https://eyeonhousing.org/2020/10/nations-stock-of-second-hom...
> The United States had an official resident population of 331,449,281 on April 1, 2020, according to the U.S. Census Bureau
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demography_of_the_United_State... https://www2.census.gov/programs-surveys/decennial/2020/data...
I'm not saying 7.5M isn't a market that might be worth chasing, but at the same time, I would hardly call 2% of the population "extremely high".
https://www.huduser.gov/periodicals/ushmc/spring2004/article...
You can do that today with the cheaper dish! See my sibling comment.
If people stopped using cellphone service for mobile internet they would loose their immense location and surveillance capabilities (gov).
What makes more sense is probably Starlink trying to prevent uneven network load.
one account, multiple dishes.
Otherwise he'd have something about it.