Jack William Bell on Nostr: Not surprising really, Starlink was incredibly successful. They even raised their ...

Not surprising really, Starlink was incredibly successful. They even raised their monthly price and, in places with high usage rates like where I live, they added a very large premium to the signup cost to discourage new accounts.

Why discourage people from signing up? Because even with the constellation as big as it is today, customer numbers are overwhelming the capacity of the satellites. It's the same dropped packet problem as Hughes–but without the insane latency.

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