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by Sebb767 1887 days ago
Yes and no. Starlink is definitely a solution for very small village or remote cabins, but economy of scale kicks in pretty fast.

Doing napkin math, the village has 2k people, so let's assume 400 households. If each of those wants 100 Mbit/s, we'd need a 40 Gbit/s link. Maybe 10 Gbit/s with over-provisioning. So that's basically a satellite only for this village. Not to mention that satellites have their own set of vulnerabilities.

Probably easier to just lay a redundant fiber liner and use star link for emergencies, in case the robotic beavers take over :)