Elon sending us a message?
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Well, Starlink still relies on ground stations for routing the traffic. The internet is still land based. Starlink is just like a wifi mesh. You could probably still be able to communicate with other Starlink users in theory.
No you use a phased array antenna. You completely bypass ISPs as the traffic is beamed directly to you.
Yes, but it's still like a wifi mesh and all the sattelites are connected to the internet via a global array of land stations as far as I know. Traffic between 2 Starlink users on opposite sides of the world doesn't hop over 100 sattelites, it is routed to the nearest land station, travels on line to the station nearest to the other user, is beamed to the sattelite and down to the user. But I'm not sure if that's the way it still works, haven't looked into it since before they started rolling it out.
Hmm.i will try searching around and get back to you
It appears to be design woth the idea of working when other services won't. It can work even where cell service stops like federal waters.