Comment on Starlink is now accessible across the White House campus, which was already served by fiber cable, after service was “donated”, as some cite security concerns.

SnortsGarlicPowder@lemmy.zip ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

• dogslayeggs@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Yeah, this doesn’t make sense to me. Starlink needs a dish that has to be outside without trees covering it, so it isn’t like they can place new routers around the building that receive Starlink and have wifi capability. They will still have to run a cable from the dish(es?) to new wireless routers. How is that ANY different from just running new wireless routers from their existing fiber?

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  • ECB@feddit.org ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    It’s literally not any different. Starlink is just a less-reliable broadband internet connection, it has nothing to do with WiFi

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  • theneverfox@pawb.social ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Because now you don’t have to run wires from the existing network to the new WiFi, you just plop them both in the new location!

    But then if you want the access points to act like one WiFi network so walking around doesn’t reset all your connections, all you have to do is run cables to the new WiFi access points from the original signal, unplug them from Star Link, then wire starlink into the main uplink as a fail over or something! Easy!

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