On 6/7/24 07:25, Ron B via zanog-discuss wrote:

But mark my words, Starlink will one day go TITSUP and have an outage which will be as long as if not longer that a submarine cable outage and an organization that solely relies on it will be crying it its own bowl of soup.

Even if Starlink does not go out of business, it should really only be seen by businesses as a backup solution. And if that is your goal, then you are probably better off with traditional GEO providers such as Intelsat and the lot, because they are more likely to guarantee they will be around for a long time, and can offer a more stable solution, albeit not as cheaply as Starlink could.

You just have to pick what you care about most... uptime, latency, consistency or cost.

PS: I have yet to see a business location saturate any link at > 300mbs on average and a home is probably far less. I have a guy who has 1gbs and uses only 40mbs. Ask him why? Its faster. Its not, his RDP session are as fast as they will ever be even at 50mbs.
A separate problem with which many people muddy the waters is that there is an underlying network kit problem where the kit is unable to sustain low latencies for sessions at high bit rates on a link.

All bandwidth does is guarantee that latency remains consistent as usage goes up, by eliminating packet loss. The more bandwidth, the less likely there is packet loss, the more likely latency remains stable, the more perception of good speed.

Mark.