10Gb Starlink for Royal Carribean Ships

(twitter.com)

10 points | by paulsutter 1 hour ago

2 comments

  • drnick1 8 minutes ago
    Isn't 10Gbps for an entire ship kind of very slow?
    • leoh 1 minute ago
      It's not amazing. Assuming 3k people are using the connection simultaneously (I think these ships can have like 9k+ in practice), that is ~412.5kilobytes/second.
  • idiotsecant 17 minutes ago
    Pretty impressive. What is the laser link bandwidth between starlink satellites? Can any starlink node also be a relay station? I don't know much about the network, I guess I didn't really realize that links between satellites was a thing now, I thought it required that a node have LOS to you and a base station for the system to work.

    (Edit) According to this (old) link there's something over 40pb of laser link traffic every day.

    https://hackaday.com/2024/02/05/starlinks-inter-satellite-la...