from Hacker News

Starlink adds $25/month to let users move their internet around

by kennethologist on 5/5/22, 12:31 PM with 27 comments

  • by cbozeman on 5/5/22, 1:53 PM

    This is pretty exciting. The last remaining hurdle I had to doing a motorcoach-to-tiny-home conversion was reliable, high-speed, low latency Internet access and it looks like that hurdle has just been cleared.
  • by euroderf on 5/5/22, 3:48 PM

    I have yet to read anything about how all these satellites in LEO, many visible to the naked eye, are interpreted by isolated communities ("tribes"). The ISS is visible, yes ? And others ? So what happens to the worldviews and creation myths and celestial imaginings of people who have known only the quiet night sky and the occasional meteorite ?
  • by iamleppert on 5/5/22, 7:41 PM

    Starlink took a $100 deposit from me over two years ago and I haven't heard anything, and their page to request a refund is broken.
  • by Shadonototra on 5/5/22, 12:33 PM

    when it becomes hard to maintain costs with government funding, you start to raise prices, after killing all competition in the way btw, the story of many US companies