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STARLINK SATELLITE INTERNET
WORDS AND IMAGES : MARTY LEDWICH
IS STARLINK THE ANSWER TO YOUR MOBILE INTERNET NEEDS ?
Tell me if this sounds familiar . You pull into a caravan park and setup ready for your stay . It ’ s around 5pm and you and the kids want to get online , do all your social media updates , video call family and start streaming the latest movies from Netflix . But there ’ s a problem : your internet speed is so slow that everything grinds to a halt and all you get is the dreaded animated circle in the middle of the screen .
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What you ’ ve experienced is network congestion on the mobile data network of your chosen telco . The caravan park has filled up with other travellers and they are all trying to do the same things as you . Because you are all in the same area , you ’ re all trying to access the internet through a limited number of mobile phone cell towers , perhaps just one , and it is completely incapable of servicing all of those connections .