Ya but.. if they break the domain name servers and what not then even if you are starlink connected, all your sites and searches are going to be broken anyway are they not?
You are right. If connections are broken between major backbones, the internet as we know it would cease to exist. At least 100% down here in the states, Canada, maybe Mexico and the breaks will definitely be felt around the world.
Just the implications of being without internet going forward are incredible. There might be chaos just from the shitheads having withdrawl of no Facebook, Instagram, and TikTok.
Just like in war, at some point, the good guys would have to repair the bridges that are blown up. So anyone with Starlink might have some kind of internet access, but to do what, exactly? Communicate via IRC to those in other countries, perhaps.
Someone smarter than me with more network knowledge needs to look at the hops Musk's network takes to see how his pipes are currently connected. Because if they are no different than AT&T, L3 communications, they will be down like the rest of us.
I think Musk's satellites have a satellite-to-satellite link in a mesh topology with each other to have true redundancy. This is something that Hughes and Viasat probably did not put any major investment into doing with their satellites due to not owning enough of their own satellites or leasing other satellites and transponders. The intersatellite linking Starlinks satellites have also means there does not have to be a significant number of earth uplink stations connected into the fiber optic networks of other countries.
Ya but.. if they break the domain name servers and what not then even if you are starlink connected, all your sites and searches are going to be broken anyway are they not?
You are right. If connections are broken between major backbones, the internet as we know it would cease to exist. At least 100% down here in the states, Canada, maybe Mexico and the breaks will definitely be felt around the world.
Just the implications of being without internet going forward are incredible. There might be chaos just from the shitheads having withdrawl of no Facebook, Instagram, and TikTok.
Just like in war, at some point, the good guys would have to repair the bridges that are blown up. So anyone with Starlink might have some kind of internet access, but to do what, exactly? Communicate via IRC to those in other countries, perhaps.
Someone smarter than me with more network knowledge needs to look at the hops Musk's network takes to see how his pipes are currently connected. Because if they are no different than AT&T, L3 communications, they will be down like the rest of us.
I think Musk's satellites have a satellite-to-satellite link in a mesh topology with each other to have true redundancy. This is something that Hughes and Viasat probably did not put any major investment into doing with their satellites due to not owning enough of their own satellites or leasing other satellites and transponders. The intersatellite linking Starlinks satellites have also means there does not have to be a significant number of earth uplink stations connected into the fiber optic networks of other countries.
That's pretty nifty. I bet the latencies are shit. But up there it should easily work, with line of sight and zero interference.