How Groundbreaking Chinese Satellite Compares to Starlink

Thursday, June 26, 2025

A "groundbreaking" Chinese satellite has managed to transmit data five times faster than Elon Musk's Starlink using a laser no more powerful than a nightlight.

Posted by Corky at 04:31 PM | 10 COMMENTS | permalink

Comments

Gee, Maybe Wile E. Coyote "Super Genius" ain't so smart after all.

Whodathunkit?

#1 | Posted by LegallyYourDead at 2025-06-26 04:52 PM

He is smart enough to get the ear of a weak minded president and suck billions of dollars from our coffers and completely divide Americans against each other.

He is started out looking like a Tony Stark but ended up looking like a Lex Luther.

A "groundbreaking" Chinese satellite has managed to transmit data five times faster than Elon Musk's Starlink using a laser no more powerful than a nightlight.

Not exactly ground breaking, as cloud cover lowers data rates significantly and this system uses the same "microwave" tech, like starlinks does, to maintain transmission.

Starlink should be able to do this as well, its just we are leading the world in research.

We will dominate the US Corky, your cheering for the downfall of Musk is really hoping the US loses.

Don't be mad, I am in agreement with you.

What's this 'we' ---, kemosabe Chinabot?

On the plus side for StarLink ...

Starlink helps eight more nations pass 50 percent IPv6 adoption
www.theregister.com

... Eight more nations have passed at least 50 percent IPv6 deployment, according to the Internet Society (ISOC).

In a Thursday post, Technology Program Manager Mat Ford wrote that Brazil, Guatemala, Hungary, Japan, Mexico, Puerto Rico, Sri Lanka, and Tuvalu have all joined the majority IPv6 club since June 2024.

Tuvalu's rise is notable because it coincided with the arrival of Elon Musk's Starlink space broadband service, which is IPv6-only. In June 2024, ISOC's "Pulse" platform, which aggregates internet measurement data from diverse sources, found no IPv6 deployment in the tiny Pacific nation. Pulse now reports that Starlink has 88 percent market share and 59 percent of Tuvalu's internet connections use IPv6.

Pulse data also shows that France has leapt from third place on the IPv6 adoption charts to draw level with India in first place. Both nations have reached 73 percent deployment. Mexico made it in for the first time, as did Brazil.

Japan made a big move from 49 percent to 55 percent, returning to the 50 percent deployment club after a mid-2024 dip.

Puerto Rico was the other big mover, moving from 49 percent in June 2024 to 53 percent this year. ...

Elon Musk controlling global communications,

What could possibly go wrong?

Commentary:

(maybe a rant, but let's see where it goes ...)

My current ISP, Comcast, provides an excellent IPv6 service.

Dual-stack. An IPv6 address, and the capability to obtain a /60 prefix delegation (though I don't request that level).

The competitors to Comcast in my area are Frontier and GoNetSpeed.

Frontier's IPv6 service is lame (I'm being kind). It is little more than an IPv6 tunnel over IPv4. I tried the service for a while, it seemed to be slow, oh so slow, compared to what I see from Comcast's dual-stack IPv6 service.

When I asked GoNetSpeed about what they provided, I received no response from their customer service. So, a company that apparently wants to gain my custom, but does not take the time to answer emails from a potential customer? OK, I want nothing to do with that company.

And, if I may also add, my current overall view of Comcast is not a good view. On the marketing side, imo, Comcast abuses customers.

However, on the Engineering side of the service they provide, well, their Internet service is tops, from a technical point of view.

And that may be Comcast's problem, i.e., it's marketing folk may be scum, while it's Engineering folk are tops.

imo, nothing more.

Wow, just saw this.

Are Comcast's marketing people facing reality?

Stung by customer losses, Comcast says all its new plans have unlimited data
arstechnica.com

... With Comcast trying to figure out how to stop losing broadband customers, the cable firm yesterday announced new plans that are available nationwide and do not have data caps.

Comcast said it is offering "four simple national Internet tiers that include unlimited data and the advanced Xfinity WiFi Gateway for one low monthly price." Customers whose current plans have data caps won't automatically get unlimited data and would have to switch to a new plan to remove that annoying limit from their accounts.

"Customers can repackage into one of our new plans that include unlimited data if they don't have it already with their existing plan," a Comcast spokesperson told Ars today.

Comcast's press release said there is a five-year price guarantee in which the plan costs range from $55 to $115 a month, before taxes and fees, for download speeds ranging from 300Mbps to 2Gbps. There's also a one-year guarantee in which the prices for the same plans range from $40 to $100. ...

imo, ...

Yeah, I will believe this apparent newfound focus of Comcast marketing upon customer desires when I can actually see it.

So far, that announcement does not apply to me.

When I called Comcast support, I was greeted with a brain-dead AI robot rep trying to figure out the question I was asking. That robot got stuck in a loop, telling me the same thing over and over.

So, Comcast apparently still wants to distance itself from its customers.