What became of Elon's Satellite-based Internet vision?

[Nicnac]

This is the most recent article I found and it's quite old already.

 

https://www.cnbc.com/2017/05/04/spacex-internet-satellites-elon-musk.html

 

What happened to that Idea? Did they launch their test satellite as planned last year?

 

[Guest]

Doesn't that article suggest that the first satellite will launch in 2019?

Edit: Well didn't find any news on that prototype launch though.

Edit 2: Seems test launches were delayed to this year. They changed the planed satellites to the MicroSat 2a and 2b (Some info).

[Dreaper]

3 minutes ago, Nicnac said:

This is the most recent article I found and it's quite old already.

 

https://www.cnbc.com/2017/05/04/spacex-internet-satellites-elon-musk.html

 

What happened to that Idea? Did they launch their test satellite as planned last year?

 

ATM Satellite wifi is shit

[Tylerebowers]

satellite wifi is fast but it has terrible latency

[KenjiUmino]

3 minutes ago, Dreaper said:

ATM Satellite wifi is shit

every wifi is shit. but when cables are not practical or just not an option ....

[Guest]

Seems test launches were delayed to this year. They changed the planed satellites to the MicroSat 2a and 2b (Some info).

[Dreaper]

1 minute ago, KenjiUmino said:

every wifi is shit. but when cables are not practical or just not an option ....

The speeds for price offered by satellite is about 15mbps per 40$, not to mention when you have a rain storm

[Nicnac]

2 minutes ago, tjcater said:

Seems test launches were delayed to this year. They changed the planed satellites to the MicroSat 2a and 2b (Some info).

Oh! I know that website! The guy is in the Space Hipsters group on fb I believe  great source, thanks!

[KenjiUmino]

4 minutes ago, Dreaper said:

The speeds for price offered by satellite is about 15mbps per 40$, not to mention when you have a rain storm

like i said ... when there are no other options in you area, it's better than nothing

[Nicnac]

1 minute ago, KenjiUmino said:

like i said ... when there are no other options in you area, it's better than nothing

The idea behind it is that it's definitely not gaming or streaming lol

 

8 minutes ago, Dreaper said:

The speeds for price offered by satellite is about 15mbps per 40$, not to mention when you have a rain storm

 Also SpaceX's network is planned to have 100x current broadband speed.

[Keikavoos]

5 minutes ago, KenjiUmino said:

like i said ... when there are no other options in you area, it's better than nothing

I don't think they would be as cheap as we think in that case, ((no other option))'s case

[LogicalDrm]

I wouldn't have high hopes of seeing this completing in next 5 years. Remember how long it took Star Wars -program to finish?

[Ithanul]

11 hours ago, Tyleredbowers said:

satellite wifi is fast but it has terrible latency

Latency indeed is bad.  Even with a good dish using commercial sats, connection will at best may get a 300ms ping.

 

Myself, on a good day on my consumer level sat connection, I get a 600ms ping.  Speeds are actually not bad (I can actually stream with no problems), but the cap is murder (20GB cap).  Along with the price being expensive.

 

11 hours ago, Dreaper said:

The speeds for price offered by satellite is about 15mbps per 40$, not to mention when you have a rain storm

Where the heck you getting sat that cheap?

 

 

Actually, I would prefer companies to focus using RF bands with ground stations.  At most you run the fiber to the ground stations and antennas then have consumers use some decent size yagi antennas to receive and transmit.  Minimal need to run cables and probably could cover a good chunk of the country side to boot.  Plus, would keep latency down since you not trying to hit a bird up in orbit.

[Drak3]

Like his other pipe dreams, hibernation.