Comment on What if the Internet Goes Down? - 15 Jan, 7PM CET
empireOfLove2@lemmy.dbzer0.com 13 hours agoHAM will work best for long distance communication but does not have enough capacity to support local short messaging for any major population sizes. Mesh networks scale in bandwidth and will not be overwhelmed as easily if tens of thousands of people suddenly hop on it at the same time.
tal@lemmy.today 13 hours ago
I think that Starlink covers a lot of disaster scenarios.
chocrates@piefed.world 13 hours ago
Assuming Elon isn’t part of it or doesn’t restrict usage
user224@lemmy.sdf.org 11 hours ago
Free Starlink during disasters for everyone, but
surveilencechild protection and anti-terrorism you must accept X as a Certificate Authority.SpruceBringsteen@lemmy.world 11 hours ago
Starlink and the number of satellites we’ve got up there could absolutely cause a chain reaction if a few too many were destroyed.
chocrates@piefed.world 11 hours ago
Haha I didn’t mean that kind of disaster. But yes star link had the potential to wipe out a lot of LEO until the debris orbits all decay