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SpaceX projected 20 million Starlink users by 2022—it ended up with 1 million (arstechnica.com)
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SpaceX projected 20 million Starlink users by 2022—it ended up with 1 million::Starlink has a fraction of the projected $12B revenue and 20M users, WSJ says.

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[–] Pyr_Pressure@lemmy.ca 13 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Interesting, I had satellite Internet through explorer and only the heaviest of blizzards would cut access to the internet. Had an uptime of probably 99% through the year. Wonder why satellites further away wouldn't have a problem with rain but starlink ones do.

[–] randombullet@feddit.de 30 points 1 year ago

Different wave lengths.

Shorter wave lengths are more affected by rain.

[–] Bobert@sh.itjust.works 7 points 1 year ago

I would hazard a guess that they were running a geostationary setup rather than Starlinks LEO approach.