ROME, March 22 (Reuters) - Negotiations on a potential contract between Elon Musk’s satellite internet operator Starlink and the Italian government have stalled, reflecting broader geopolitical tensions, Italy’s defence minister said on Saturday.

                • Da Bald Eagul@feddit.nl
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                  No, I think you mean 50 megabits per second. I’d consider 100mbit (megabits) average, 50 000 megabits, which is equal to 50 gigabits (or ⅛th of 50 000 megabytes) would be ludicrously unnecessarily much for a residential connection today, and it’d be hard to find hardware to support it.

                  Just for reference:

                  • Modern DDR5 Random Access Memory can be bought for 8000 mega transfers per second, which is pretty high end. According to wikipedia, this is roughly 64 gigabytes per second.

                  • PCIe 4 SSDs can reach up to 7GB/s or 56 gigabit/s of data transfer speeds. PCIe 5 drives cap out at roughly 16GB/s or about 128gb/s.

                  I don’t think your internet would be quite that fast, or at least you wouldn’t be complaining about it 😅

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          Fiber needs to be run to the towers. It’s easier to install more towers but it’s still an expense.

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              Wireless trunking can do 10GBs . Fiber does 800GBs. Chaining more towers means more are funneled through that last 10GBs link.

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                  StarLink does fiber back haul from base stations. So it’s either your Telco spending the money or StarLink. Your Telco doesn’t want to spend the money because it comes from customers and would require rate hikes that are regulated.

                  Whereas StarLink is spending its investor’s money.

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    Every major powerblock will build their own constellation. The need is there, but there is no way that the militaries will give that amount of control to the USA & Musk now. Musk switched of starlink in a critical phase for Ukraine and that was the dead of the program for militaries outside of the USA

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      No, because for 99% of applications byoubdont need low latency satellite internet. A single geostationary satellite works wonders

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        That single satellite is toast at the start of every major conflict

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          Nah. Very few nations have the capability to strike satellites.