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Starlink is now accessible across the White House campus, which was already served by fiber cable, after service was “donated”, as some cite security concerns. (economictimes.com)
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White House officials said the installation was an effort to increase internet availability at the complex. They said that some areas of the property could not get cell service and that the existing Wi-Fi infrastructure was overtaxed.

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[–] notannpc@lemmy.world 35 points 13 hours ago (1 children)

Ah yes, because what the white house needs is an inferior ISP to plug the gaps that could easily be filled by proper wireless access point configuration and distribution.

This is definitely not going to come back to haunt us later.

[–] icmpecho@lemmy.ml 1 points 2 hours ago

depending on how badly Starlink fucks up the deployment, this could actually make the performance worse especially if airtime and spectrum are limited which I would assume would be the case. Elon throwing APs every which way isn't likely to make that any better.

this is like getting a flat tire on your handcart and buying a G Wagon with no wheels to fix it.