Starlink .... thoughts?

[Adrian Walker]

1 hour ago, -rick- said:

 

Cost wise, Starlink is already profitable so any 5G add on service doesn't have to worry about paying for that..

It is operationally profitable.

It's interesting that it has to launch over 2,000+ satellites every year. 

[-rick-]

4 minutes ago, Adrian Walker said:

It is operationally profitable.

It's interesting that it has to launch over 2,000+ satellites every year. 

 

I thought it was profitable including the satellite launches but could have misunderstood.

 

They are raking in billions a year and thair launch costs are extremely low because of rocket reuse.

 

 

[Kelvin]

5 hours ago, -rick- said:

 

I thought the full fibre products fed back the fibre direct to the local exchange (which should have at least some degree of backup power and be prioritised to restoration in event of an outage). Not sure if they have generators or not (I would guess they do in places with frequent outages). So maybe outages isn't such a worry?

Not around us. If there’s a power cut the fibre goes off line. 

[Alan Ambrose]

It shouldn't do - are you sure it's not just your own router or OR's ONT going dead?

[Nickfromwales]

1 hour ago, Alan Ambrose said:

It shouldn't do - are you sure it's not just your own router or OR's ONT going dead?

Don't they still have / utilise 'exchanges' for fibre? Surely it's not direct from source?

[Iceverge]

Our 5g supplier has decided to pull their service. 

 

We have a fixed antenna on the wall outside with a Cat6 to the router. 

 

Would this cable do for starlink or is it a special one? 

 

 

[Post and beam]

11 hours ago, Iceverge said:

Would this cable do for starlink or is it a special one? 

The Starlink cable is proprietry and a standard ethernet cable will not work. 

The ends of the Starlink are slightly different. They also claim that because their antenna is quite high power that ethernet cable cannot cope.

[-rick-]

1 hour ago, Post and beam said:

The Starlink cable is proprietry and a standard ethernet cable will not work. 

The ends of the Starlink are slightly different. They also claim that because their antenna is quite high power that ethernet cable cannot cope.

 

Certainly true of the original dishes, but I thought some of the newer ones had other options. I've seen plenty of people use normal ethernet cables (possibly with adapters) online.