* Posts by MrHuggy

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Attacks on UK fiber networks mount: Operators beg govt to step in

MrHuggy

Vandalism By Cable Companies: Poles in Hull

How about acts of vandalism by the cable companies, Poles in Hull

Here in Hull, UK due to our unique situation of having a local teleco Kingston Communications we are now having other cable coming in to build out their own networks. Sound's great but it isn't what is happening is that there's 4 companies putting there own cables down but instead of putting it underground they are string it up on telephone poles so now we have streets that can have up to 4 different set of poles.

This is all because the government changed the rules meaning you do not have building permission to place telephone poles and they are paying the companies to roll out fibre even though our local company Kingston Communications has had fibre to the house for years. The new companies aren't selling connections because people have fibre already. The whole thing is a mess and the local councils can't stop them.

Chinese 'connected' cars are a national security threat, says Biden

MrHuggy

So here I am worrying that Chinese made cars might be used to spy on people. Writing it out on a chinese made laptop using the wifi from my chinese made phone, yet I'm not worried at all that the manufacture's of those haven't been compromised and using them to spy on me.

This fear mongering happens time and time again and time and time again turns out it was false. If they fear cheap cars from China well make cheap cars in the US then China cars would be less competitive. Ford, Tesla and GM are or in the case of GM was working on a low cost (sub 25K) electric car platform in a couple of years a lot of manufactures will be on the back foot yet again.

SpaceX upgrades Starlink to reflect less light, can't launch without its Starship

MrHuggy

Re: Why is Starlink special?

Other satellites have had problems before and still do today and they haven't fixed them, like Iridium satellites that was so bright they you could see them with the naked eye when their antennas reflected sunlight > https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uymzXNdXwmo . Some companies are now doing the same thing as SpaceX and are reducing the reflectivity.

MrHuggy

Re: Corporate Good Citizenship?

They are a lot of objects in space from low earth orbit to geostationary orbit, some 26,000 objects are tracked ranging from Space Station, Satelites, Spent rocket stages and other debris. Sounds a lot but space is big with in GEO it's 266,947,554,950,031.00 cubic KM, on average each object in space has 9 billion cubic km of room.

Now density differs depending on the orbit but orbits themselves are like a motorway on earth each Satellite does the same speed on the same orbit, if they went faster or slower they would make their orbit lower or higher. So as a result it is like traffic going along a highway with a 3 meter wide satellite getting close to another satellite on another road 1 km away been classed as a close encounter which really it isn't.

Like today the closest conjunction is 2 satellites passing 0.117 km away with a 1 in 1000 chance of hitting.

https://platform.leolabs.space/visualizations/conjunctions/today

Now this looks a lot of objects, but remember these are not to scale and if they was you wouldn't see any.

https://platform.leolabs.space/visualizations/leo

See you in Hull: First UK city to be hooked up to full-fibre broadband

MrHuggy

I'm currently live in Hull, i have to say KCOM has done a miraculous turnaround. They first started to roll out fiber to the rural villages as they kept having copper lines nicked. In Hull itself they have been running out fiber to every telegraph post, then connecting the houses up from there. If you had a problem with your phone line they just replace it with fiber, all new houses have fiber fitted. It is expensive, mainly due it been a small teleco but you pay for bandwidth rather than amount and the one fee includes line rental etc.