{"id":101577,"date":"2025-10-24T13:50:10","date_gmt":"2025-10-24T13:50:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/101577\/"},"modified":"2025-10-24T13:50:10","modified_gmt":"2025-10-24T13:50:10","slug":"give-up-wired-internet-starlink-will-have-to-work-harder-to-convince-me","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/101577\/","title":{"rendered":"Give up wired Internet? Starlink will have to work harder to convince me"},"content":{"rendered":"

Welcome to The Full Nerd newsletter\u2014your weekly dose of hardware talk from the enthusiasts at PCWorld. Missed the hot topics on our YouTube show<\/a> or latest news from across the web? You\u2019re in the right place.<\/p>\n

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Pretend for a moment that for a satellite, the only thing that matters is what it does while in orbit. From that view, the news about Starlink\u2019s amped-up new V3 satellites is pretty astounding\u2014as reported by my former colleague Michael Kan<\/a>, these hulking contraptions will not only dramatically expand download capacity for customers, but also support gigabit speeds.<\/p>\n

This development definitely piques my interest. And I\u2019m diehard fan of wired internet.<\/p>\n

Wireless technology captures the heart\u2014it always feels futuristic, no matter how mundane the application. Or how rudimentary the tech. I remember when satellite internet was synonymous with slow. Practically speaking, you signed up for such a service only because nothing better existed. But emotionally? It was comforting to have the option available. And also, as a child of the 90s (when connecting to the web happened via whining beeps and boops), knowing the internet could be beamed to you from the sky was super cool.<\/p>\n

Heck, even spoiled now by always-connected pocketable computers (aka smartphones), I still feel joy whenever I use a basic wireless keyboard. Something about breaking free of tethers is wondrous\u2014for me, it represents freedom. Infinite possibility. When you can connect without physical contact, the sky is the limit.\u00a0<\/p>\n

(Now literally so, thanks to hardware in literal space, blasting internet into homes at the same theoretical rates as earth-bound services.)<\/p>\n

Still, the pragmatist in me wants to see more. Not more satellites, per se\u2014that\u2019s actually a potential risk, given how at least one Starlink satellite burns up each day<\/a>, and such debris could add to the severity (and resulting consequences) of climate change. I\u2019m hoping to see an even tighter closing of the gap between wireless and wired technologies.<\/p>\n

Because as good as it\u2019s become, wireless still has one main weakness. It remains bound by physics. Signal interference will always give wired connections a leg up when rock-solid dependability matters. Starlink\u2019s improved a lot. But heck, even the wireless keyboard I\u2019m currently reviewing acts up if I put its receiver behind the PC.<\/p>\n

If the technology could become resilient enough to trust through thick and thin, I\u2019d consider abandoning my wired internet. (Or at least, trusting I don\u2019t have to have wireless access points connected via Ethernet backhaul.) Maybe my other wired tech, too. I\u2019m hoping it will.<\/p>\n

Because even though I am a hard sell on this point, I love that we have options. I love alternatives. I love that a bunch of smart folks decided to trade one set of limitations (physical linking as a requirement) for a different set, so that you can choose what best fits your situation.<\/p>\n

I love someone asked, \u201cIsn\u2019t this a neat idea?\u201d Because yeah, it is.<\/p>\n

In this episode of The Full Nerd<\/p>\n

In <\/a>this episode of The Full Nerd<\/a>, Adam Patrick Murray, Brad Chacos, Will Smith, and special guest Tom Peterson, Fellow at Intel, dive deep into Xe3 gaming, making a better GPU, and much more. As always when TAP visits us, he guides everyone through an incredible amount of detailed, insightful information\u2014for over two hours!<\/p>\n

Plus, Tom adds yet again to The Full Nerd cookbook with two mouth-watering suggestions\u2014chicken ballotine and \u201cthe best brownie ever.\u201d In his words, these brownies are not chewy but cakey, and \u201cvery, very nice.\u201d<\/p>\n

(Also, I\u2019m hereby proposing that for every guest we have on the show, we ask for a recipe contribution so we can put it into a TFN Cookbook collection at each year\u2019s end.)<\/p>\n

\"TFN25<\/p>\n

Willis Lai \/ Foundry<\/p>\n

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This week\u2019s wild nerd news<\/p>\n

So apparently, I should take vacation more often\u2014I was not expecting to come back to word of an itty bitty PCs housing a desktop 5060 Ti 16GB chip, much less a report on butt-breathing could become an actual medical treatment (yes, you read that correctly).<\/p>\n

\"Test<\/p>\n

\t\t\tNow that is a toy I\u2019d want under my Christmas tree.<\/p>\n

Mikael Lindkvist<\/p>\n

This takes me back<\/a>: This week\u2019s dose of 90s nostalgia comes courtesy of a Microsoft devblog post, which digs into Windows 95\u2019s most iconic icons. Seeing that desktop computer PC icon hit me hard.<\/p>\n

Never change, Japan<\/a>: I sincerely hope Japan never loses its love for physical media\u2014books, discs, and the like. I love the charm of disc drives and calculators (yep, a whole bin full of basic, desk-sized ones) stocked alongside $1,000 AM5 motherboards in Akihabara stores. Fingers crossed mini-disc players have a revival.<\/p>\n

It doesn\u2019t snow where I live, but I want one<\/a>: OK, this smart snow blower isn\u2019t computer hardware. It\u2019s also $5,000. But you control it with a dupe of an Xbox controller and it looks like one of my favorite construction toys from when I was a kid. I\u2019m in.<\/p>\n

Mini but mighty<\/a>: I built a big PC just a few weeks ago, but I love tiny gaming PCs. And Zotac\u2019s sub-3L offering with a desktop 5060 Ti stuffed inside is delightful.<\/p>\n

Turns out, enshittification has nuance<\/a>: At least, Cory Doctorow (the original inventor of the term enshittification) takes this approach to the concept. After reading this interview, I can\u2019t wait to get my hands on his full book.<\/p>\n

Battlefield 6 blinding you?<\/a> The fine folks over at PCGamer have you covered\u2014try their suggestion for adjusting the brightness settings.<\/p>\n

I\u2019m not the only one<\/a>: When an astoundingly broad range of people sign an open letter asking for AI development to be paused until it can be done safely\u2014and with large public buy-in\u2014it seems like maybe the tech industry is ignoring how problematic the current approach is.<\/p>\n

GoG Games has some crazy tales<\/a>: I think none of us appreciate enough the lengths GoG has gone to preserve gaming\u2014at least, I feel I didn\u2019t after reading about this particular tale. Wow.<\/p>\n

Well, it was a good run while it lasted<\/a>: I like how the earth gets a finite end date, but the calculus for humanity\u2019s survival is generalized to, \u201cWell, definitely not as long as earth\u2019s lifespan.\u201d<\/p>\n

Catch you all next week\u2014I believe the whole TFN crew will be celebrating Halloween in full style. At least, we will be if Adam has anything to say about it.<\/p>\n

~Alaina<\/p>\n

This newsletter is dedicated to the memory of Gordon Mah Ung<\/a>, founder and host of The Full Nerd, and executive editor of hardware at PCWorld.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Welcome to The Full Nerd newsletter\u2014your weekly dose of hardware talk from the enthusiasts at PCWorld. Missed the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":101578,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[61,206,60,80],"class_list":["post-101577","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-internet","tag-ie","tag-internet","tag-ireland","tag-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/101577","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=101577"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/101577\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/101578"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=101577"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=101577"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=101577"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}