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    • JaredBusch
      JaredBusch @NerdyDad last edited by JaredBusch

      @nerdydad said in Miscellaneous Tech News:

      @jaredbusch said in Miscellaneous Tech News:

      @nerdydad said in Miscellaneous Tech News:

      @jaredbusch said in Miscellaneous Tech News:

      @nerdydad said in Miscellaneous Tech News:

      Each won't cover very much ground, but if there is a little bit of overlap between a couple of satellites, the switching between satellites should almost be seamless.

      1000km radius circle moving fast.
      starlink.jpg

      Question just occurred to me. Current TV satellite fairs pretty well except for intense t-storms. Current Internet satellite, doesn't fair as well. How would SpaceX ISP fair with Intense T-Storms?

      Totally different technologies and distances involved.

      You have to stop comparing.

      Well then, like Scott said, lets just wait and see how they perform on their own, with no comparison.

      You could possibly compare to Iridium (generation 2 not the current system). Those are in the same general LEO range as SpaceX.
      But they were only planning to offer up to 8mbps with K band.

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      • momurda
        momurda @NerdyDad last edited by

        @nerdydad Current Satellite ISPs are operating at distances of tens of thousadns KM from Earth, these SpaceX sats are only a fraction of that distance away and should provide better latency at least.

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        • scottalanmiller
          scottalanmiller last edited by

          "SpaceX has said it will offer speeds of up to a gigabit per second, with latencies between 25ms and 35ms. Those latencies would make SpaceX's service comparable to cable and fiber. Today's satellite broadband services use satellites in much higher orbits and thus have latencies of 600ms or more, according to FCC measurements."

          https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2018/02/spacexs-satellite-broadband-nears-fcc-approval-and-first-test-launch/

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          • travisdh1
            travisdh1 @scottalanmiller last edited by

            @scottalanmiller said in Miscellaneous Tech News:

            "SpaceX has said it will offer speeds of up to a gigabit per second, with latencies between 25ms and 35ms. Those latencies would make SpaceX's service comparable to cable and fiber. Today's satellite broadband services use satellites in much higher orbits and thus have latencies of 600ms or more, according to FCC measurements."

            https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2018/02/spacexs-satellite-broadband-nears-fcc-approval-and-first-test-launch/

            I was seeing 3000ms response time on HughesNet back in 2007-2009. Thankfully DSL became available, even at 512k/384k it was so much faster!

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            • scottalanmiller
              scottalanmiller @travisdh1 last edited by

              @travisdh1 said in Miscellaneous Tech News:

              @scottalanmiller said in Miscellaneous Tech News:

              "SpaceX has said it will offer speeds of up to a gigabit per second, with latencies between 25ms and 35ms. Those latencies would make SpaceX's service comparable to cable and fiber. Today's satellite broadband services use satellites in much higher orbits and thus have latencies of 600ms or more, according to FCC measurements."

              https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2018/02/spacexs-satellite-broadband-nears-fcc-approval-and-first-test-launch/

              I was seeing 3000ms response time on HughesNet back in 2007-2009. Thankfully DSL became available, even at 512k/384k it was so much faster!

              That's not far off from what we saw in the Congo on Hughes a year or two later.

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              • NerdyDad
                NerdyDad @scottalanmiller last edited by

                @scottalanmiller said in Miscellaneous Tech News:

                the Congo

                Huh? Okay, where in the world has Scott NOT been? That might be an easier question to answer.

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                • S
                  scotth @NerdyDad last edited by

                  @nerdydad said in Miscellaneous Tech News:

                  @scottalanmiller said in Miscellaneous Tech News:

                  the Congo

                  Huh? Okay, where in the world has Scott NOT been? That might be an easier question to answer.

                  Better to ask Carmen Sandiego

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                  • dafyre
                    dafyre @scotth last edited by

                    @scotth said in Miscellaneous Tech News:

                    @nerdydad said in Miscellaneous Tech News:

                    @scottalanmiller said in Miscellaneous Tech News:

                    the Congo

                    Huh? Okay, where in the world has Scott NOT been? That might be an easier question to answer.

                    Better to ask Carmen Sandiego

                    Or Waldo.

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                    • Obsolesce
                      Obsolesce @scotth last edited by

                      @scotth said in Miscellaneous Tech News:

                      @nerdydad said in Miscellaneous Tech News:

                      @scottalanmiller said in Miscellaneous Tech News:

                      the Congo

                      Huh? Okay, where in the world has Scott NOT been? That might be an easier question to answer.

                      Better to ask Carmen Sandiego

                      Lol I used to watch that way back in the day

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                      • scottalanmiller
                        scottalanmiller @NerdyDad last edited by

                        @nerdydad said in Miscellaneous Tech News:

                        @scottalanmiller said in Miscellaneous Tech News:

                        the Congo

                        Huh? Okay, where in the world has Scott NOT been? That might be an easier question to answer.

                        That was Danielle that went there, not me.

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                          scotth @Obsolesce last edited by scotth

                          @tim_g said in Miscellaneous Tech News:

                          @scotth said in Miscellaneous Tech News:

                          @nerdydad said in Miscellaneous Tech News:

                          @scottalanmiller said in Miscellaneous Tech News:

                          the Congo

                          Huh? Okay, where in the world has Scott NOT been? That might be an easier question to answer.

                          Better to ask Carmen Sandiego

                          Lol I used to watch that way back in the day

                          Never knew it was a show. Go figger.
                          My girls used to play the PC game.

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                          • dafyre
                            dafyre @Obsolesce last edited by

                            @tim_g said in Miscellaneous Tech News:

                            @scotth said in Miscellaneous Tech News:

                            @nerdydad said in Miscellaneous Tech News:

                            @scottalanmiller said in Miscellaneous Tech News:

                            the Congo

                            Huh? Okay, where in the world has Scott NOT been? That might be an easier question to answer.

                            Better to ask Carmen Sandiego

                            Lol I used to watch that way back in the day

                            Now I've got the song stuck in my head...

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                            • mlnews
                              mlnews last edited by

                              Lots of recent Hammer2 filesystem improvements of DragonFly BSD.

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                              • mlnews
                                mlnews last edited by

                                Linux 4.17 will drop some older CPU architectures.

                                Being dropped includes Blackfin, CRIS, FR-V, M32R, MN10300, META, and TILE. OpenRISC is on the chopping block for the near future, as well.

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                                • popester
                                  popester last edited by

                                  https://techcrunch.com/2018/03/14/sierra-leone-just-ran-the-first-blockchain-based-election/

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                                  • scottalanmiller
                                    scottalanmiller @popester last edited by

                                    @popester said in Miscellaneous Tech News:

                                    https://techcrunch.com/2018/03/14/sierra-leone-just-ran-the-first-blockchain-based-election/

                                    Maybe someday the US will catch up with the technically advanced countries 😞

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                                    • mlnews
                                      mlnews last edited by

                                      Wine 3.4 looking good with new MS Office anti-aliased font support coming.

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                                      • Obsolesce
                                        Obsolesce @scottalanmiller last edited by

                                        @scottalanmiller said in Miscellaneous Tech News:

                                        @popester said in Miscellaneous Tech News:

                                        https://techcrunch.com/2018/03/14/sierra-leone-just-ran-the-first-blockchain-based-election/

                                        Maybe someday the US will catch up with the technically advanced countries 😞

                                        Doubtful when there's so much money in it for companies to use old existing tech.

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                                        • scottalanmiller
                                          scottalanmiller @Obsolesce last edited by

                                          @tim_g said in Miscellaneous Tech News:

                                          @scottalanmiller said in Miscellaneous Tech News:

                                          @popester said in Miscellaneous Tech News:

                                          https://techcrunch.com/2018/03/14/sierra-leone-just-ran-the-first-blockchain-based-election/

                                          Maybe someday the US will catch up with the technically advanced countries 😞

                                          Doubtful when there's so much money in it for companies to use old existing tech.

                                          That's the problem with this system, it's so heavily designed around status quo, at almost any cost.

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                                          • mlnews
                                            mlnews last edited by

                                            Major Flaw in Firefox 59.0.1 fixed.

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