I don't know how many minds I am in about the presence of this thing in the lab, but I suppose I will do setup this week and test performamce for - latency, jitter, packet loss and such.

Well, there's really not much to say about .

You take it out of the box, place the dish on the roof, plug it in. It takes a few minutes to find itself, align the dish and then it just works.

You do not strictly need the app (I don't have a device that would run it) to get connected , although I suppose it might help on a site with many obstructions.

latency is, as advertised, low, RTT to space and back is ~40ms. Even when loaded up it's not that bad.

Yesterday I did some very "manual" tests of VoIP call quality with . Works 100%.

So, for the moment, it would seem like the perfect solution to remote communications. For /TIC this has been a major block for years. We have been unable to install local service in quite some number of communities, due to being unable to provide reliable backhaul.

However, I do have some concerns about it.

@keith I read somewhere that the bandwidth allocation was very optimistic. With the current amount of satellites the bandwidth per user will go down drastically in the future. However, if you are using it in a sparsely populated area, that shouldn't be an issue for a while.
I'm more concerned about Rhizomatica funding *that guy*, but yeah... 🤷‍♀️​
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Yesterday I found this: (from Nov 2021):

satmagazine.com/story.php?numb

"The Bandwidth Of The StarLink Constellation...and the assessment of its potential subscriber base in the USA."

@keith That's a good estimate, and it's not that great. However, if it's only for VoIP, that should be plenty :)
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