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
Pretty impressive. What is the laser link bandwidth between starlink satellites? Can any starlink node also be a relay station? I don't know much about the network, I guess I didn't really realize that links between satellites was a thing now, I thought it required that a node have LOS to you and a base station for the system to work.
(Edit) According to this (old) link there's something over 40pb of laser link traffic every day.
Isn't 10Gbps for an entire ship kind of very slow?
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
Pretty impressive. What is the laser link bandwidth between starlink satellites? Can any starlink node also be a relay station? I don't know much about the network, I guess I didn't really realize that links between satellites was a thing now, I thought it required that a node have LOS to you and a base station for the system to work.
(Edit) According to this (old) link there's something over 40pb of laser link traffic every day.
https://hackaday.com/2024/02/05/starlinks-inter-satellite-la...