How the fuck does one of the biggest governments in the world with access to a top tier it department think the upgrade is starlink and not another fibre cable or more access points. Whatever the problem starlink for a city building is not the solution.
Oh yes, please do “improve”… With the Starlink priority plans you’ll have amazing speeds such as 40-220 Mbps down/8-25 Mbps up 😂😂
They’re gonna shit their pants with excitement when they experience these speeds^^
Yikes I had no idea the speeds were so bad. Even my Australian internet is significantly faster
Don’t forget the latency and QoS that’ll probably be done haphazardly limiting everyone to just a sliver of the total available bandwidth.
Because trump wants to reward leon for his servitude and contributions with a huge ass government contract.
Starlink is free the first month, but after that it’s 19,999,999.00 a month. Data theft is a free bonus.
Because unlike fiber, which you can install and reasonably expect to work with minimal maintenance or other costs for years, Starlink has a guaranteed revenue stream by way of planned obsolescence. We will be constantly launching satellites to keep up replacement of the ones that are deorbitted, and that cost will naturally be passed on to the taxpayer.
Not that fiber installs aren’t also a grift. After all, how many times has the American taxpayer paid for rural broadband?
Starlink is the purest definition of “space junk.”
Because now Mush gets to monitor all that is done and said digitally in the whole government
Grifters gonna grift
Because Musk has mad conflicts of interest
A laundry list
That’s just the new direct line to our great comrade Putties poot.
“Are you suggesting I don’t understand Wi-Fi?”, US Press secretary… Probably
Ominous voice: “She doesn’t.”
They have zero idea. It’s bidirectional satellite, and not low-latency, so…ELON SAID SO
Eh, it’s decently low latency. Around 40ms or so. That doesn’t make it useful for them though. There’s absolutely no -legitimate- reason for it in the white house. As for illegitimate reasons, why could Musk possibly want a connection inside the white house that has no oversight other than his own…?
60+Ms at a minimum is not low latency. What are you on about? I have 10ms from coast to coast on residential fiber.
Government installs which were previously on fiber are being switched to this bullshit. Fiber international interconnect to Australia right now is 13ms from DC to Sydney. Big fucking difference.
15,700+km from DC to Sydney, which is 52+ms at light speed…
It might depend on location and congestion, but usually it is under 25ms on average.
Like his semen he spreads his companies everywhere.
It’s in series for rubes.
It’s a good backup internet service to avoid BIFF. But it reads like they are piping in internet from a datacenter, so just using starlink as an ISP.
Why? $$$. I bet the whitehouse spends a lot on internet.
Also, it’s probably really easy to perform traffic inspection using starlink vs an established, regulated ISP.
