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Musk Feb 2021 "Speed will double to ~300Mb/s & latency will drop to ~20ms later this year"

https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1363763858121256963?lang...

Again on Jun 2021 https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1272363466288820224?lang...

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There are plenty of 300 Mbps+ speed tests posted on r/Starlink. But that's peak, vs the average that Speedtest is showing.

Starlink's bandwidth and latency are way past good enough at this point. The issue with Starlink currently is reliability. Many people experience dropouts and jitter that make it unsuitable for video conferencing or gaming. This is often caused by people being unable to meet the requirement that the dish have a continuous unobstructed view of most of the sky, unlike a traditional satellite dish that stays pointed at one tiny section of sky. This will improve as more satellites are launched.

There will be a market for large flag pole-like installations that are lightning resistant and are above the tree line.

Maybe I'm opening a can of worms here, but isn't Elon's Twitter an unreliable source of factual information when it comes to promises about the future capabilities of his companies?

Depends on the figure type. A specific spec is usually reliable, AI timelines are very unreliable. Product launch dates are inconsistent. Shipment volumes have always been met, but are almost always delayed.

Didn't the SEC have a chat with him about that?

The SEC only had a chat with him because it has to maintain the facade that it does something.

The mortgage crisis showed that the SEC is a toothless revolving door of rubberstampers. And still is.

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