I’m reading here:

As Starlink’s user base grows, the Iranian government is likely to intensify efforts to restrict satellite internet access.

How could they do so?

    • ERROR: Earth.exe has crashed
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      2 months ago

      I meant “transmit from your starlink antenna”, so my brain just chose the word “upload” because my brain is lazy… 😅

      So… to clarify: sending a request for “wikipedia.org” is still gonna transmit, which means they will find you, even if you aren’t “uploading”

      • DominusOfMegadeus
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        12 months ago

        Wouldn’t that signal be comparatively pretty weak, and difficult to parse from surrounding radiation?

        • Tar_Alcaran
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          42 months ago

          Not really, flying over it with an detector would spot the frequency used pretty handily.

          Starlink transmits in a relatively narrow frequency band that wouldn’t have a lot of transmitters (14-14.5ghz) in a random urban area. It also transmits pretty broadly, because it needs to hit a wide area of the sky because of moving satellites.

          You’d get some false positives with a detector drone, but not that many.