Can we say goodbye to GPS communicators?

[Quicksand]

Might have to carry some sort of router/air card in your pack but this will make internet connectivity available anywhere on the earth.

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/new-...GGeWqY4obs9W4YU53oSGI6Tj58Okg4ibZJDXDtvVoFz80

 

[Teth-Air]

Fantastic!, well until they start falling from the sky because their Tesla battery needs recharging.

 

[jhurkot]

Fantastic!, well until they start falling from the sky because their Tesla battery needs recharging.

 

[Caper11]

This will be like going back to dial up internet.

Gps is not that quick to Aquire a signal. Just imagine trying to get bandwidth.

 

[Crustyolddude]

Are you chipped or unchipped?

 

[Quicksand]

This will be like going back to dial up internet.

Gps is not that quick to Aquire a signal. Just imagine trying to get bandwidth.

these aren't your grandpas satellites

 

[Caper11]

these aren't your grandpas satellites

I guess we will see.

 

[Teth-Air]

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Oh I see they got one of those cheap Chinese solar panels like I got from Aliexpress.

 

[Foxstar45]

One day this tech will provide us with backcountry mobile phone internet. Just not right away. At launch it's going to provide 'actual' high speed internet at launch for remote areas reliably and more cost effective than anything we've got today. Perfect for a back country sled cabin. The receiver is the size of a pizza.

 

[skegpro]

This will be like going back to dial up internet.

Gps is not that quick to Aquire a signal. Just imagine trying to get bandwidth.

Initial beta test speeds are averaging 50mbps at 50ms ping. Musk has not even turned it up yet. Only 700 of 20,000 sats in the sky.

 

[skegpro]

https://www.starlink.com/

They just take your address and email.

I had to use the google plus code, as my address does not exist on the internet.

 

[Tchetek]

This will be like going back to dial up internet.

Gps is not that quick to Aquire a signal. Just imagine trying to get bandwidth.

My rural internet and cell phone service basically dial up now.

Bring this on!

 

[TROLLCAT]

I so want to kiss xplornet good by.....

 

[NoBrakes!]

Oh I see they got one of those cheap Chinese solar panels like I got from Aliexpress.

Whats your deal? I would think an inventor/entrepreneur like yourself, in the tech industry... would be happy to see progress? no one calls down your product, yet a thermal laser and few other gadgets from Ali and we could make your stuff.... please explain your stand on tesla, batteries, and this new communication tech instead of Kandogging it.....

 

[The Kickass One]

We don’t need this... one of the great things is being out of cell service for a day!!

 

[Teth-Air]

Whats your deal? I would think an inventor/entrepreneur like yourself, in the tech industry... would be happy to see progress? no one calls down your product, yet a thermal laser and few other gadgets from Ali and we could make your stuff.... please explain your stand on tesla, batteries, and this new communication tech instead of Kandogging it.....

Okay I will explain my stand. I absolutely love this and believe it to be best tech currently available. What you fail to realize is that that is just my stupid humor to make fun of things just because its fun. Don't get all bent out of shape. Johnny is the one who responded to me and he knows my sick sense of humor. I bet you pulled the hair of the cute blonde when you were 7 years old, not because you didn't like her, it was because you had a crush on her.

 

[Pedaling pete]

They have begun launching the satellites!

 

[Teth-Air]

They have begun launching the satellites!

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Careful "Nobrakes" will be getting on your case.

 

[Bury Me With My Toys]

Well there goes the peace and quiet in small towns, and out in the wilderness.

 

[Foxstar45]

Well there goes the peace and quiet in small towns, and out in the wilderness.

Because of the internet? Have you gone snowmobiling before or heard one start up? Stayed at a cheap motel with thin *ss walls next to drunk sled bros? Woke up to diesels warming up for 40 minutes when it's like -7 outside. Nothing about a sled weekend is quiet. lol. Just let me send my email from the warmup shack in peace so my co-workers think I'm at my desk getting sh*t done.