In a tweet following the launch event, SpaceX CEO Elon Musk revealed that Starlink V2 satellites will reach 2 to 4 Mb/s per cell zone. That’s enough for texting and perhaps voice calls, but not much else. Remember, this bandwidth will have to be shared by all users in the cell zone.
ugjka@lemmy.world 11 months ago
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cyberpunk007@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Ah nice. Well a single 1080p steam on Netflix consumes about 4Mbps. VoIP calls about 1.7Mbps.
It’ll do but yeah it’s not great. It’s definitely enough for surfing the net.
ugjka@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Weather conditions will probably heavily impact what speeds you will get, and you can’t use this indoors or in vehicle