Submitted 1 week ago by MastKalandar@feddit.online to [deleted]
Is Elon Musk's starlink based upon optical fibres ?
Optical fibrea are better for connectivity or satellites ?
Only partly. Starlink is a wireless service based on satellites in space rather then 4/5G mobile towers in our local area.
The antennas on people houses shoot signals up the the sats and the sats relay that traffic to the ground stations.
Once the signal is collected by the ground stations it is then carried by fibre to internet exchanges to access the greater internet.
That means, if l wish to go off grid, l should have nothing that shoots/collects signals of any kind ??
if you’re trying to go off-grid in that way, you gotta give up home internet altogether. you’re always trackable by your ISP.
Pretty much. If you’re incredibly savvy, paranoid and careful you could get some clean devices and stay anonymous, but that’s really advanced stuff.
The moment you check your emails, or contact more than 0 known associates with it they can start narrowing down who you are based on the profiles they have on basically every person.
For the average person to go off-grid you’re gonna wanna give up basically all tech.
not really. the majority of starlink’s connection is wireless.
fiber optic is faster if it’s available in your area. starlink is better for remote areas or if you want to bring WiFi with you in your car or boat or something
Or train ? Or ship ?
Absolutely.
sure
Question 1 Not to the customer.
Question 2 yes.
I’m sure there are some in there somewhere and major terrestrial nodes but it’s mostly space lasers bouncing signals between satellites and then radio waves to communicate with srarlink receivers.
Archer@lemmy.world 1 week ago
Really testing the subreddit name here
MastKalandar@feddit.online 1 week ago
Meaning ?
Archer@lemmy.world 1 week ago
I rest my case