A ship will likely have multiple uplinks, not to mention a lot of on board caching.
It's not amazing. Assuming 3k people are using the connection simultaneously (I think these ships can have like 9k+ in practice), that is ~412.5kilobytes/second.
that never happens tho. run a speedtest on a starlink airplane, nominally what like 400Mbps shared among 200+ passengers, and you'll get at least 40Mbps ish
I’m not sure 30% of people pay the $30 or whatever daily fee for wifi
Probably not 3k simultaneously, not even close, but it only takes a few hundred people streaming 4K videos or downloading something for the whole network to slow down to a crawl.
> but it only takes a few hundred people streaming 4K videos
The modern compression techniques can do wonders. See youtube for details. /s