Dang, I was hoping there was a competitor. I’m boycotting Musk companies as best I can
I invite you to join me in rural Australia, and choose from the many options available. /s
This makes me think that the Starlink system is very poorly designed. I know there are hundreds of satellites, and a large number of base stations.
Even if a large chunk of the satellites were taken out and a few base stations failed, shouldn’t the system keep working, just over a different path?
This sounds very much not like a hardware failure, but more like somebody fucked up.
You’re off ten fold. They have thousands. Around 5000 with a planned 12k after gen 3 has been fully deployed. It’s definitely a “let the intern push to prod” type of scenario by numbers alone.
They probably dorked up a bgp route or something. It was down globally.
That would do it!
Considering it is designed by an American mega corp, yes it is probably poorly designed because they go for profit maximalisation.
Did you even read the article? It clearly states a core SOFTWARE component. Not hardware.
I’ll upvote anything bad happening to musk.
HugesNet has low throughput but it’s pretty reliable. I had high hopes for Starlink but it seems to be a dud.
My coworkers mom paid $200 a month with a 20GB datacap for HughesNet and couldn’t even stream Netflix or Youtube. Their service is completely useless in 2025.
I’m sorry, but not even having a Musk backed product as my only alternative could get me to use HugesNet’s antifunctional service. Literally dialup is better.
That’s what I hear, but my experience is different
GOOD
Got a nice fibre-optic connection, have you? Try throttling that to <10Mbps and you might understand what some people have to deal with. DSL at 10Mbps from an evil corporation, or 150Mbps from an evil corporation, hmmmmm, what a choice.
It’s easy to shit on the owner, but have some sympathy for folk who don’t have a reasonable alternative.
