Revised 6/27/23
Starlink is a very high-speed low-latency space-based internet access service originally designed for use in rural areas worldwide which lack adequate terrestrial broadband infrastructure. The service is now available for More...
Satellite Broadband is Terrestrial Emergency Proof
When tropical storm Irene lashed Vermont eleven years ago, many towns became islands. The roads and bridges to them were More...
Good news for Vermont.
Up until now, the only way to find out whether Starlink is immediately available where you want to use it was to try ordering and see whether the website forced you to backorder status. Doing that every day was not practical. Now there is an official map from Starli More...
The service is usable for teleconferencing but has annoying glitches. Lately quality seems to be deteriorating, at least here in central Vermont.
Even free stuff needs to be sold or it won’t be used; that’s why freecheckip.com.
In retirement I can’t seem to stop programming. I have been doing it for 60 years; it put our kids through college and software has been an important component of the co More...
“Is it my internet connection or hers?” Mary asked me. I ran a speed test with her browser and the connection looked OK.
“It’s happening again,” Mary said again. Another speed test looked OK.
“She says it only happen when she’s zooming with me!” This time it was an accusation. And More...
Another volunteer project to help those using and evaluating Starlink.
With a few notes on significance.
Last month Starlink sent the letter below to Beta users of which I am one. The news in it is important to those waiting for Starlink or considering ordering it. I can’t find an online copy so I’m posting it here along with some comments following the text More...
Last week, I predicted that much of the internet and most cloud datacenters will launch into space in the next ten years. Today the only part of the Internet in space is a very small amount of “b More...
Unlike Bezos and Branson, they’re going to stay there.
Today we have space-based internet access and a terrestrial internet; within ten years, we’ll have a space-based internet. Internet traffic will travel more miles in space than on terrestrial fiber. By that time the g More...
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