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2019-05-31 at 6:32 PM UTCanyone know about the new GPS satellites Elon Musk sent up?
fucking GPS sucks ass around here. I'm guessing it has a limited bandwith as well. now that everyone uses it.
there are GPS coordinence sent out by cell phones and some of the nicer phones also have a GPS tracker built into them. so a cell phone like an Iphone will have 5-6 different antenni in them.
looking forward to more accurate GPS.
But what about Satellite Phones? how cool would it be to never have a drop call in the future and them ridding all these deadly radiation cell towers. I mean they're passive radiation but the wave signals can still affect cells in the body.
It would be cool to get rid of these big bulky modem routers in the house and one day have multi gig fast wireless routers from a cell device or small portable for internet 2 on the go.
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2019-05-31 at 6:44 PM UTCuse alternative such as glonass or beidou.
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2019-05-31 at 7:02 PM UTCstarlink is for broadband internet access, haven't heard anything about them providing positioning.
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2019-05-31 at 7:06 PM UTCBandwidth?
Doesn't GPS broadcast a signal and GPS devices use that signal to triangulate position...so bandwidth isn't really an issue/or affected by the number of users.
Much like a radio station isn'tThe following users say it would be alright if the author of this post didn't die in a fire! -
2019-06-01 at 3:10 PM UTC
Originally posted by Jiggaboo_Johnson Bandwidth?
You're british, you're in texas and a radio operator specialist.
Doesn't GPS broadcast a signal and GPS devices use that signal to triangulate position…so bandwidth isn't really an issue/or affected by the number of users.
Much like a radio station isn't
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2019-06-01 at 3:11 PM UTC
Originally posted by A College Professor starlink is for broadband internet access, haven't heard anything about them providing positioning.
I might of confused them with an earlier launch.
is it like one of those Dish Network Internet connections ? fucking cost like 110 bucks a month to get ISDN speeds out in the middle of fucking nowhere. Dish-Internet or something like that. beats no internet I suppose -
2019-06-01 at 4:03 PM UTCA few things here:
1) ALL cell phones have GPS trackers in them unless you buy them specifically without
2) Cell phones use cell phone towers to increase location accuracy.
3) Satellite phones were already a thing 30+ years ago and, as you may have noticed, aren't very mainstream. They are used more for people researching jungles and shit like that.
4) Verizon is already rolling out 5G wireless internet
5) FUCK WiFi only connection. I would MUCH rather be physically connected to my modem with an ethernet cord. Much. -
2019-06-01 at 5:22 PM UTCA surprising number of people think mobile phones work via satellites. One guy I worked with didn't know the difference between GPS and GPRS, so thought that the GRPS CC terminals needed a line-of-sight to the sky. I dunno how areas with no coverage are accounted for in this world view.
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2019-06-01 at 5:39 PM UTC
Originally posted by Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country A surprising number of people think mobile phones work via satellites. One guy I worked with didn't know the difference between GPS and GPRS, so thought that the GRPS CC terminals needed a line-of-sight to the sky. I dunno how areas with no coverage are accounted for in this world view.
must be ireland thing.
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2019-06-02 at 9:15 AM UTCI don't really know anything about Sat Phones. just they're expensive as shit. "line of site" is the sats to other sats which are geostationary or static positioned?
anyways, It would be nice to never get a dropped call. makes you want to go back to just plain radio when the streaming music stops for 10 seconds in those dead zones. -
2019-06-02 at 9:26 AM UTC
Originally posted by Tesla Coil anyways, It would be nice to never get a dropped call. makes you want to go back to just plain radio when the streaming music stops for 10 seconds in those dead zones.
The companies that run cellular networks should take dead zones more seriously. It’s absolutely disgraceful that they don’t just pop in a new tower to fix them. -
2019-06-02 at 9:34 AM UTC
Originally posted by Tesla Coil I might of confused them with an earlier launch.
is it like one of those Dish Network Internet connections ? fucking cost like 110 bucks a month to get ISDN speeds out in the middle of fucking nowhere. Dish-Internet or something like that. beats no internet I suppose
no, are you baiting me into spouting pro elon messages? i think his businesses aren't about doing what everyone else is doing.
it's supposed to be way better than hughes net and all the existing stuff because it's in low orbit which means reasonable latency, similar to wired internet. and theres gonna be 1000+ of them -
2019-06-03 at 5:01 AM UTC
Originally posted by Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country The companies that run cellular networks should take dead zones more seriously. It’s absolutely disgraceful that they don’t just pop in a new tower to fix them.
Oh they would if they could. It's the Nimby fuckers with money that stop it.
You'll notice some of the worst parts are in wealthier communities while the best connections are near lower income properties.
that's a huge advantage for drug dealers in low income regions such as gangs.
