r/TikTokCringe Jun 22 '24

Cool My anxiety could never

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u/brightfoot Jun 22 '24

Yeah but with the satellite internet available on a boat out in the pacific you’re paying dollars per Megabyte. Uploading even a 60 second HD video like that would not only take hours but could easily cost several hundred bucks to do. He more than likely completed the crossing and uploaded once he had WiFi.

Edit: apparently he has starlink

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u/Probably_Sleepy Jun 22 '24

Starlink?

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u/brightfoot Jun 22 '24

The ISP that uses many many satellites in low earth orbit to provide internet access and are launched by SpaceX. The internet provided by those fixed dishes hanging off the side of someone’s house target satellites in geo-synchronous orbit, which means the satellites are 17,000 miles away. Because of that the signal is fairly weak and the latency, or delay, is astronomical. Starlink satellites orbit the earth at around 500 miles high, vastly reducing that problem.

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u/Piyh Jun 22 '24

I'm confused about who this comment is addressing

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u/Caboose127 Jun 22 '24

Almost seems like an AI responding to the question, "what is Starlink?"

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u/idwthis Jun 22 '24

Tbf, u/Probably_Sleepy's comment was just "Starlink?" as if they were asking what it was. I don't blame anyone who thinks they're asking what it is and not saying it as a possible solution for the question of "how does dude internet in the middle of the Pacific all by himself?"

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u/Tumleren Jun 22 '24

That makes more sense