All About Starlink Mini & Why The Speculations Are Wrong
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- Опубликовано: 4 июл 2024
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A lot of speculations and rumors are going around about the Starlink Mini and why the prices are so outrageous in the US vs Latin America. Based on my research, I attempt to explain why I think this might be the case and what we can potentially expect going forward.
Chapters:
00:00 Introduction
01:03 Starlink Mini Specs
03:01 Availability in the US
04:27 Availability in Latin America
05:21 Unused capacity
06:36 Spectral efficiency
09:25 Limited supply
10:37 Market testing
10:59 Concerns with perception
12:00 What to expect?
12:42 Is it the best dish for nomads?
14:27 Conclusion
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Thank you much for your thoughts and ideas. And also I look forward to future updates on performance using your 12V conversion. I hope Starlink does not hinder use of 3rd party routers! I am going to wait for your review of the XTAR Link EL3 device before I proceed on my 12V conversion.
good analysis, thanks
Thanks for the update. I am currently driving to Pan-Am in North America, but when I hit Colombia, I’ll see about either switching my gen2 to be based out of Colombia or purchasing this mini. Maybe we both.
@@harler1263 if I was still in Colombia I would have definitely tried getting a mini.
It sounds good, I'm getting closer to you now I'm just outside madellin now maybe we could meet up in Peru?
@@landyandy4x4 sounds good! We'll be in Ecuador for a couple more weeks. Once we get to Peru we plan on hitting the coast for some surfing so you can find us there
@@freelyroaming cool I should be coming into Ecuador in a few weeks, so I'll see you on a beach in Peru?
Essi sim é tecnologia de ponta
Were you not tempted to order a mini?
@@rowanbassett7798 of course I was. if I was still in Colombia I will for sure have ordered one. I just left there a week ago and they are taking nearly 2 weeks to ship. Bad timing. But I really just would have liked to test and review it. I will when I'm able to.
You’re incorrect about the spectral efficiency. The dish is smaller so the beam generated by the beam forming is not as narrow (I’ve designed such systems in the past and size matters) and the dish uses less power so the transmit power is lower. Both reduce the signal-to-noise ratio (snr) which means that for whatever spectrum you have, you will have reduced bandwidth. The starlink system is a shared bandwidth system so if snr is lower you get less bits per said spectrum. Basically, the smaller dish which transmits at lower power eats up more spectrum per bit and thus consumes more resources that can be better utilized by bigger dishes.
Bottom line - as far as SpaceX/Starlink is concerned the cost per bit for a smaller dish is higher so they can either increase the price of the plan or limit the cost by limiting bandwidth.
That’s likely why while there are many use cases where a smaller dish which consumes less power is advantageous, StarLink would prefer that where a larger dish can be used - the customer would use a larger one - especially in more congested areas like cities or dense countries (or where the service is popular). The best way for StarLink to control this is with price and availability
You started with the statement that I am incorrect but then you continue to explain exactly what I said.There is zero contradiction with what you wrote and what I said in the video. Except for the most important point that you did not mention. It seems you either didn't finish watching the video or didn't understand the main point.
I made this video partly because of all the flawed arguments I've been seeing similar to the one you made in my last video. And now this one. I never said lower spectral efficiency is not a fact. It's just basic physics. But that is not where the flaw lies in this argument. If your experience is in designing similar systems that only tells me you likely don't have a lot of experience selling or marketing the products and services they become. Which is why these arguments you are making are flawed.
In the video, I agreed that spectral efficiency is indeed lower BUT, this doesn't mean less users can be connected at the same time. Which is the ONLY measurement of loss of revenue with the current business model. At least for the Roam and Residential plans that the mass majority of the users are on. Just like the gen3 dish is more spectrally efficient than the gen2 but they don't make more money from it. Better SNR is only beneficial if you can charge a customer more for it. Spectrum per bit doesn't matter from the perspective of this business model. Only spectrum per simultaneously connected users matter. Period.
Without knowing their exact network configurations, we can only speculate and base it on other telecom standards. Each satellite can process less data due to less spectral efficiency but as long as it has the same number of users connected, lower throughput makes NO financial difference. Because of that, there is zero difference to the revenue generated regardless of spectral efficiency. It's NOT a metered or tiered service by speed or quantity. It just has to be sufficiently fast. Whether it's 150 Mbps or 300 Mbps, most people who would choose to switch to the mini dish understand the slower speeds is a trade off and would not care about the lower throughput or that they are paying the same price for slower service. The business benefits is in being able to sell to MORE users, NOT if the speeds are faster or if the spectral efficiency is greater for each user. At least not yet since there are effectively no competitiors yet in this space. Greater cost per bit is only a measurement for technical efficiency in this case. But for a business model where the user pays a flat fee regardless of speed, it makes no difference. Greater number of simultaneously connected users each with sufficient speed is the only thing that matters. Congestion in crowded areas will not be solved by users having bigger dishes with faster speeds. This fact is demonstrated by them willing to sell this dish at a huge loss to areas with low user base and probably lower speed expectations. Bottom line is of course they would prefer if their system was more spectrally efficient but they can not connect more concurrent users or charge more money because of it. I don't know what you think I said but I never said that less spectral efficiency was not a fact. Go back and watch it again. It's just not a BUSINESS factor that would affect revenue for this flat rate, unmetered service. They would have never developed this dish if it did. There are technical reasons for them to improve spectral efficiency but there is no financial one. Yet. Unless of course they plan to make everyone pay per data consumed which then they might and would likely see an instant massive drop in the subscriber base from those who have less convenient but unlimited alternatives.
But since neither you or I work for starlink, these are all still speculations. Regardless of how much personally similar experience either or us have in telecom.
Can you help me get one please we live in a poverty country
@@doesonson no I can not. Good luck
@@freelyroaming ok thank you