Comment by 100721
Comment by 100721 a day ago
What is the specific use case you have in mind?
Comment by 100721 a day ago
What is the specific use case you have in mind?
I wonder how SL plans vary in Ukraine / for use in Russia. Assuming US-like pricing and limitations, for low speed drones, this would work. The gotcha is that for jet or fast prop drones in the 250-478 kts range requires a very expensive aviation plan assuming it's similar to US plans.
Could that not also be part of the support being provided to Ukraine in that those prices are not the same as some commercial account? At the end of the day, the billing department could just not issue the bill, or any other method of meaning Ukraine isn't paying for it.
"As of May 2024, Poland continues to pay subcription fees for more than 20 thousand terminals it has bought for Ukraine" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Starlink_in_the_Russian-Ukrain...
I am not sure - afaik there is a speed limit (assumption of satellite visibility and specific latency?) over which starlink won’t work, right? It can however be useful for getting the internet without announcing yourself to a swarm of drones?
>I am not sure - afaik there is a speed limit (assumption of satellite visibility and specific latency?) over which starlink won’t work, right?
The author's youtube channel also contains a video of him doing a speedtest on a starlink mini while driving on a highway.
>Fact check with more interesting info: https://chatgpt.com/share/684eef92-a604-8010-94aa-07200edb4b...
An AI conversation is hardly a "fact check".
Wouldn’t this give Starlink the ability to track and/or turn off operations in real time?
Yes, you may recall some controversy a few years back when Musk made some threats along those lines.
There are alternatives if you only need short range, or if you can tolerate high latency. And of course there are fire-and-forget cruise missiles that don't need communications at all.
But there aren't all that many other options. Historically, satellite internet companies like Iridium, Globalstar and Teledesic have not fared well.
It was only made to appear a controversy for clicks and Ukrainians (understandably) trying to bend the rules.
The thing came with a clear limit "this thing works in these cells of this big hex grid". And they drove it off that hex grid. Plan and simple.
Its like if the US-supplied HIMARS came with some built-in limit that it cannot be used to target known Russian nuclear installments, and they'd try to do that.
It's not that those things are unquestionable, but they are limits that would need US consultation as US obviously doesn't want the thing to escalate from being a defensive war to something else.
Iridium works extremely well for what it was designed for – truly global, low latency communications without requiring a directional antenna. Unfortunately, that also means very low data rates.
It only gained packed-switched data with the second generation satellite network, but data rates are still very low (think hundreds of kbps, and I believe even that needs high-gain antennas).
Yes but they’ve mostly not been doing that (they probably are selling a lot of dishes) and what’s the alternative?
Russians also use Musk's satellites and might find the information useful.
Also as I understand, satellites do not work over Russian territory so guess where this can be used.
Actually, they do work is Russia. You need account registered in some allowed country and also use RV plan (or maybe it is called 'roam' now). I know some ppl who use it. Was thinking to get one myself, to have a reliable bypass of pathetic russian firewall.
> Actually, they do work is Russia.
Aren't starlink have some kind of geolock?
> to have a reliable bypass of pathetic russian firewall
All data shows that Russia have one of the strongest and best firewall in the world, in many aspects even better than in China. And all the Russians I spoke with say that VPN is not blocked and any service for a couple of bucks does its job.
Maybe just for front-line deployment, it would suck to be targeted by a glide bomb because the Russians located some WiFi signal.
Based on recent events I would guess an explosive-laden drone.
Given that the blogger is based in Kiev, Ukraine? Good chance this goes on some sort of long range, Predator-style drone.