Because LEO is very, very far away and cell towers bounce the signal with powered repeaters to drastically increase the distance?
Satellite internet is trash and slow, because it is very far away.
You can have a signal boosted or connected directly via fiber to a main node via the towers.
Implementation of faster internet is and was always going to be the goal. On satellite I'd probably get 1-10 Mbps, if that. On 5G, you get around 100 Mbps. On 4G it's something like 40-50Mbps.
Fiber is near limitless, but not lossless due to the fact that you cannot make a material (currently) that light would not bleed out of eventually.
Which is why we have a lot of stops along the way and tend to bury fiber cables underground, aside from their fragility and susceptibility to harsh weather.
It's the same thing with cell towers. They take a signal and amplify it to the next towers or directly take that signal to a node with a fiber or copper connection. With satellite, you have absurdly low speed, nothing in between to carry the signal and most likely a lot of packet loss.
I understand we are on a forum that is about conspiracies and the theories that accompany them, but not everything is a valid conspiracy.
There is a demonstrable improvement in speed and quality over 4G (roughly twice as fast) just like 4G was better than 3G.
If you want to talk about 5G activating viruses or whatever, or causing problems because it wasn't researched enough / there are some shady dealings related to suppressing any potential problems with it, that's different.
But to ask why we need or would want 5G "bcuz we have satellites and stuff" is a gross misunderstanding of the internet, the necessary structure to deliver it wirelessly, and the necessary technological improvements to keep ahead of increasing data sizes.
Helium balloons do not orbit the earth, they are designed to be static, but they at the mercy of stratosphere air currents, storms, etc. This is the reason Google shut this program down in Jan because it failed to work.
Satellite technology is geosynchronous and has been around for years but is still slow. Elon Musk is working on a chain of LEO safelights to overcome this. It is still slow because it uses radio waves. It is good only for rural markets.
Wire data travels at the speed of light so it is the defacto standard.
Starlink is now delivering initial beta service both domestically and internationally, and will continue expansion to near global coverage of the populated world in 2021.
During beta, users can expect to see data speeds vary from 50Mb/s to 150Mb/s and latency from 20ms to 40ms in most locations over the next several months as we enhance the Starlink system. There will also be brief periods of no connectivity at all.
As we launch more satellites, install more ground stations and improve our networking software, data speed, latency and uptime will improve dramatically.
"wires do not transmit data at the speed of light"
Uh, yeah they do fuck wit. Sea bottom cables are fiber optic for one. Even your table lamp sends electrons to it at the speed of light.
In the case of an electrical cord connecting a table lamp or some other household item to a power source, the copper wire inside the cord acts as the conductor. This energy travels as electromagnetic waves at about the speed of light, which is 670,616,629 miles per hour,1 or 300 million meters per second.
The last two sentences on page 388 explain that optical fiber that allows light to travel 67% of the speed of light comply with IEEE (The Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers) standards.
I was hoping you were not a total fuck wit, but you really are. Yeah, electromagnetic energy travels at the speed of light less 30% outside a vacuum. For all practical purposes, wired energy is fucking fast. So thanks for nit-picking a point.
With fiber cables, data is transmitted via pulses of light across thin strands of glass, enabling fiber-optic cable speed that is near the speed of light.
I think you need to watch this
Admiral Grace Hopper Explains the Nanosecond
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9eyFDBPk4Yw
Because LEO is very, very far away and cell towers bounce the signal with powered repeaters to drastically increase the distance?
Satellite internet is trash and slow, because it is very far away.
You can have a signal boosted or connected directly via fiber to a main node via the towers.
Implementation of faster internet is and was always going to be the goal. On satellite I'd probably get 1-10 Mbps, if that. On 5G, you get around 100 Mbps. On 4G it's something like 40-50Mbps.
Fiber is near limitless, but not lossless due to the fact that you cannot make a material (currently) that light would not bleed out of eventually.
Which is why we have a lot of stops along the way and tend to bury fiber cables underground, aside from their fragility and susceptibility to harsh weather.
It's the same thing with cell towers. They take a signal and amplify it to the next towers or directly take that signal to a node with a fiber or copper connection. With satellite, you have absurdly low speed, nothing in between to carry the signal and most likely a lot of packet loss.
I understand we are on a forum that is about conspiracies and the theories that accompany them, but not everything is a valid conspiracy.
There is a demonstrable improvement in speed and quality over 4G (roughly twice as fast) just like 4G was better than 3G.
If you want to talk about 5G activating viruses or whatever, or causing problems because it wasn't researched enough / there are some shady dealings related to suppressing any potential problems with it, that's different.
But to ask why we need or would want 5G "bcuz we have satellites and stuff" is a gross misunderstanding of the internet, the necessary structure to deliver it wirelessly, and the necessary technological improvements to keep ahead of increasing data sizes.
The 5G towers will be used to transmit frequencies and commands when you get the chip in your brain.
Helium balloons do not orbit the earth, they are designed to be static, but they at the mercy of stratosphere air currents, storms, etc. This is the reason Google shut this program down in Jan because it failed to work.
Satellite technology is geosynchronous and has been around for years but is still slow. Elon Musk is working on a chain of LEO safelights to overcome this. It is still slow because it uses radio waves. It is good only for rural markets.
Wire data travels at the speed of light so it is the defacto standard.
The deployed wires do not transmit data at the speed of light.
According to https://www.starlink.com/ (Elon Musk's company):
High-speed, low latency broadband internet.
Starlink is now delivering initial beta service both domestically and internationally, and will continue expansion to near global coverage of the populated world in 2021.
During beta, users can expect to see data speeds vary from 50Mb/s to 150Mb/s and latency from 20ms to 40ms in most locations over the next several months as we enhance the Starlink system. There will also be brief periods of no connectivity at all.
As we launch more satellites, install more ground stations and improve our networking software, data speed, latency and uptime will improve dramatically.
"wires do not transmit data at the speed of light"
Uh, yeah they do fuck wit. Sea bottom cables are fiber optic for one. Even your table lamp sends electrons to it at the speed of light.
In the case of an electrical cord connecting a table lamp or some other household item to a power source, the copper wire inside the cord acts as the conductor. This energy travels as electromagnetic waves at about the speed of light, which is 670,616,629 miles per hour,1 or 300 million meters per second.
IEEE Standard for Ethernet https://ecfsapi.fcc.gov/file/1050839507018/IEEE%20Standard%20for%20Ethernet.pdf
The last two sentences on page 388 explain that optical fiber that allows light to travel 67% of the speed of light comply with IEEE (The Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers) standards.
I was hoping you were not a total fuck wit, but you really are. Yeah, electromagnetic energy travels at the speed of light less 30% outside a vacuum. For all practical purposes, wired energy is fucking fast. So thanks for nit-picking a point.
With fiber cables, data is transmitted via pulses of light across thin strands of glass, enabling fiber-optic cable speed that is near the speed of light.
You're welcome.