<story><title>SpaceX launches 60 more Starlink satellites</title><url>https://techcrunch.com/2020/06/03/spacex-launches-60-more-starlink-satellites-and-records-a-reusability-record-for-a-falcon-9-booster/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>sontek</author><text>As someone who lives in the mountains of Puerto Rico and has to rely on &amp;quot;unlimited&amp;quot; cell phone coverage that data caps me and satellite internet that also has data caps....  I can&amp;#x27;t wait until starlink is up and running and we may have an option for high speed, low latency, internet for us who hate cities and love nature :)</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>pier25</author><text>We lived for a year in some mountains in Mexico in an off-the-grid cabin. We became accustomed to everything (energy starvation, driving 30 mins to the nearest village, 2 hours to the nearest city, etc) except the lack of connectivity.&lt;p&gt;I bought one of those huge Wifi antenna to connect to an open Wifi of a rural school a couple of kilometers away. It was empty after 2pm so we had 4Mbps just for ourselves all afternoon and night (if we had a sunny day and our batteries were full). That lasted about 8 months until someone built a barn or something and installed some electricity poles. We weren&amp;#x27;t able to connect anymore.&lt;p&gt;After that we drove almost daily to the village and spent a couple of hours in a café with a flaky 2Mbps connection but it became unpractical. We went back to civilization 2 months later or so.&lt;p&gt;If Starlink would have been available back then maybe we&amp;#x27;d still be living in the mountains!</text></comment>
<story><title>SpaceX launches 60 more Starlink satellites</title><url>https://techcrunch.com/2020/06/03/spacex-launches-60-more-starlink-satellites-and-records-a-reusability-record-for-a-falcon-9-booster/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>sontek</author><text>As someone who lives in the mountains of Puerto Rico and has to rely on &amp;quot;unlimited&amp;quot; cell phone coverage that data caps me and satellite internet that also has data caps....  I can&amp;#x27;t wait until starlink is up and running and we may have an option for high speed, low latency, internet for us who hate cities and love nature :)</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>Reedx</author><text>Yeah, if it really does deliver ~25ms latency and up to 1GBPS, work from anywhere becomes much more literal. Currently a lot of remote work and things like multiplayer games are limited to areas with reliable broadband.&lt;p&gt;But if you can get that anywhere... it&amp;#x27;ll be amazing and have a profound effect.</text></comment>