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by kevin_thibedeau 1871 days ago
Wait til you have 1000 neighbors vying for bandwidth.
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The most pessimistic estimate I've seen paid for by the cable industry is here: https://ecfsapi.fcc.gov/file/10208168836021/FBA_LEO_RDOF_Ass...

Only if each subscriber is using an average of 15-20 Mbps during peak times will about 50% of subscribers see some throttling.

Interestingly they only showed a single graph of average bandwidth over time from a cable company to estimate needs for SpaceX. No clue if they actually separated it out by time zone for each coverage area in their actual analysis.

Starlink isn't about directly competing against high density fiber connected internet. It's about everyone else.