I'm all for global technology.
There is a concern about all the space junk we have put in orbit.
We have a similar problem in our oceans with plastic.
We are litterbugs.
I imagine at some point in our future there will be salvage companies who gather up those materials and make some money. Right now, the technology doesn't exist to make cleaning it up cost effective. Still too expensive to reach it and too dangerous. I don't think it will always be that way. Plus, if it starts causing problems we will be forced to clean it up.
I also imagine, when we start colonizing space there will be an Interplanetary Internet. A special interest group already exists.
http://ipnsig.org/
InterPlanetary Networking Special Interest Group (IPNSIG)
I pay $62 @mo for about 15megs thru AT&T U-Verse.
I watch a lot of movies.
Thru the years I've learned how to get the best speed possible.
Many people don't realize most internet connections are not at top speed.
Bandwidth costs money. No matter your ISP max speed, you can only connect as fast as the site has capacity. Many sites limit their bandwidth.
There's also what is called net congestion. Think of it as road traffic.
There are peak bandwidth times and slow bandwidth times. Just like traffic at rush hour and traffic in the middle of the night.
Think of bandwidth as the diameter of the pipe the connection moves thru. Like water, the larger the bandwidth the more flow you get. On my computer, there is a wireless and a wired connection. That hardware and the software which runs it act as an orifice to increase or decrease the flow of connection.
There is software which optimizes that restriction.
I use TCPOptimizer (Its free)c=
http://www.speedguide.net/downloads.php
There's also Speedtest by Ookla which connects with different servers around the world to test your bandwidth speed.
http://www.speedtest.net/
I use TCPOptimizer and Ookla Speedtest to tweak my connection speeds at different times of the day.
I'm curious to see if there are improvements when Starlink is up and running?
Thanx for an interesting discussion!