Dang, I was hoping there was a competitor. I’m boycotting Musk companies as best I can
Musk’s Starlink hit with hours-long outage after rollout of T-Mobile satellite service
Submitted 3 weeks ago by vegeta@lemmy.world to technology@lemmy.world
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FabledAepitaph@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
panda_abyss@lemmy.ca 3 weeks ago
Yeah, sadly SpaceX and Tesla are both very promising companies primarily held back by Elon Musk.
detren@sh.itjust.works 3 weeks ago
SpaceX sure but Tesla has been in decline for so long that I wouldn’t be surprised if by the end of the decade it’s either irrelevant or sold off / taken from Musk.
unexposedhazard@discuss.tchncs.de 3 weeks ago
Tesla cars have always been overpriced, low quality, unsafe toys with a shiny case around them.
r_deckard@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
I invite you to join me in rural Australia, and choose from the many options available. /s
philpo@feddit.org 3 weeks ago
Iris2 and Eutselsat OneWeb are currently massively expanding their network - for European coverage first,though, but with the explicit goal to be a Musk alternative.
Etterra@discuss.online 3 weeks ago
I hate T-Mobile, but I really hate Elon Musk. So while I’m not happy for T-Mobile, I do enjoy watching Musk suffer in any way whatsoever.
kadup@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
In a fight between Elon Musk and traditional telecoms, I’m cheering for the fight
rottingleaf@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Musk yes, but there are quite a few Ukrainian servicemen not happy, I think.
cupcakezealot@piefed.blahaj.zone 3 weeks ago
good hope it stays broken forever
r_deckard@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Thank you so much ! /s Come and join me where the options are many and the price is so cheap. /s /s
If you’d like to experience what it’s like to access the internet sans Starlink, perhaps you could just throttle your modem to 8 or even 10 Mbps. Yes? No? Then consider how lucky you are, and have some empathy for those of us who have little or no alternative.
Jason2357@lemmy.ca 3 weeks ago
Your options are limited not by random angry dude on the Internet, but by deliberate and calculated lack of development conspired between legislators and telecoms. Starlink will hit the limits imposed by physics and geometry, and then will get worse and worse the more people sign up.
cupcakezealot@piefed.blahaj.zone 3 weeks ago
push and advocate for municipal and community owned broadband
HiTekRedNek@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
“I know millions of people use their service because it’s the only real option they have, but because it’s associated with this one guy I don’t like, they can all eat a dick!”
corroded@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
This makes me think that the Starlink system is very poorly designed. I know there are hundreds of satellites, and a large number of base stations.
Even if a large chunk of the satellites were taken out and a few base stations failed, shouldn’t the system keep working, just over a different path?
This sounds very much not like a hardware failure, but more like somebody fucked up.
HiTekRedNek@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Did you even read the article? It clearly states a core SOFTWARE component. Not hardware.
Vinstaal0@feddit.nl 3 weeks ago
Considering it is designed by an American mega corp, yes it is probably poorly designed because they go for profit maximalisation.
kokesh@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
I’ll upvote anything bad happening to musk.
kieron115@startrek.website 3 weeks ago
Oh, so that’s why my internet went out for 4 hours yesterday. RIP.
rc__buggy@sh.itjust.works 3 weeks ago
HugesNet has low throughput but it’s pretty reliable. I had high hopes for Starlink but it seems to be a dud.
CmdrShepard49@sh.itjust.works 3 weeks ago
My coworkers mom paid $200 a month with a 20GB datacap for HughesNet and couldn’t even stream Netflix or Youtube. Their service is completely useless in 2025.
cmnybo@discuss.tchncs.de 3 weeks ago
It’s been over a year since the last big Starlink outage. That’s a lot better than my old DSL provider.
rc__buggy@sh.itjust.works 3 weeks ago
yeah? For some reason I thought it had outages here and there all the time.
Still, they were down for almost 3 hours today and that’s a lot worse than my old DSL provider.
Jason2357@lemmy.ca 3 weeks ago
That’s a ridiculously low bar in 2025. What even is twisted pair DSL??
JcbAzPx@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
I’m sorry, but not even having a Musk backed product as my only alternative could get me to use HugesNet’s antifunctional service. Literally dialup is better.
rc__buggy@sh.itjust.works 2 weeks ago
That’s what I hear, but my experience is different
Photuris@lemmy.ml 3 weeks ago
GOOD
r_deckard@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Got a nice fibre-optic connection, have you? Try throttling that to <10Mbps and you might understand what some people have to deal with. DSL at 10Mbps from an evil corporation, or 150Mbps from an evil corporation, hmmmmm, what a choice.
It’s easy to shit on the owner, but have some sympathy for folk who don’t have a reasonable alternative.
Bo7a@lemmy.ca 3 weeks ago
Hear hear!
Everyone is like “Move out of the city, live a life closer to nature” but also “If you use the only service that truly enables that you suck!”
I’ll take what I can get until something as good or better comes along.
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SoupBrick@pawb.social 3 weeks ago
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sepi@piefed.social 3 weeks ago
Starlinks are in too low an orbit to cause Kessler Syndrome.
PraiseTheSoup@midwest.social 3 weeks ago
but they pollute the night sky visually and that’s nearly as bad.
Aedis@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Is that accurate though? Assume a satellite is in a decaying orbit (thus too low to contribute to Kessler syndrome on its own) and another satellite is in a different orbit eccentricity-wise but they both collide. Are we certain that none of the pieces from the collision would acquire enough speed to become boloids that contribute to Kessler syndrome?
Time to go down the rabbit hole that is orbital mechanics for me again. Byeeee lol
cley_faye@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
All they can do is pollute the atmosphere we sometimes breath in even more.
SoupBrick@pawb.social 3 weeks ago
Learn something new every day, thanks!