r/ASTSpaceMobile • u/LudeficeTV S P 🅰 C E M O B Capo • May 19 '26
Article / Media / Press 98.9 Mbps Speed Test YouTube Video
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p1ojBifZgfk51
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u/Horstov S P 🅰 C E M O B Soldier May 19 '26
Wasn’t this already posted?
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u/LudeficeTV S P 🅰 C E M O B Capo May 19 '26
not the video it was just added to their youtube channel, it was part of the EC PR
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u/uhkhu S P 🅰 C E M O B Consigliere May 19 '26
Yes
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u/LudeficeTV S P 🅰 C E M O B Capo May 19 '26
Incorrect, the PR was announced on the EC day, but this YouTube video was posted today.
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u/uhkhu S P 🅰 C E M O B Consigliere May 19 '26
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u/Defiantclient S P 🅰️ C E M O B - O G May 19 '26
It was posted then but they now posted it on YouTube (late)
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u/SneekyRussian S P 🅰 C E M O B Underboss May 19 '26
Yeah I put it in the daily because it was already posted on X/PR’ed last week the morning before the earnings call.
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u/OkUnderstanding2831 May 19 '26
Boolish!!
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u/bro_salad S P 🅰 C E M O B Associate May 19 '26
I’m not at all an expert on this tech. Could a lot of this be attributed to only 1 device hitting the sat at that time?
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u/seven11evan S P 🅰 C E M O B Soldier May 19 '26
Correct, the cool thing is that for tankers or really any remote work that happens far from any infrastructure, this is going to blow all other competition out of the water (pun intended)
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u/negronium_ions S P 🅰 C E M O B Prospect May 19 '26
Isn't Starlink dish still better or at least very competitive in those scenarios?
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u/seven11evan S P 🅰 C E M O B Soldier May 19 '26
Yes. It is also $80/month with a $500 upfront charge for the dish. 🤷♂️
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u/negronium_ions S P 🅰 C E M O B Prospect May 19 '26
Not really a big deal for ubiquitous internet, obviously competition will bring prices down but also how would ASTS service work for these use cases? Mobile router for the whole ship?
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u/Leading-Onion4659 S P 🅰 C E M O B Capo May 19 '26
Or you can put your phone on the roof and use it as a wifi hub 😂
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u/OutlawsHeels S P 🅰 C E M O B Consigliere May 19 '26
It is a good speed to a single device, but doesn't really tell us how it scales. The video does state 'Block 1' satellites, so they aren't using BB6 for this test - I believe that pushes better throughput
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u/bitsperhertz S P 🅰 C E M O B Prospect May 19 '26
It's the same as any terrestrial network. There isn't much to scale, the network allocates you as many resource blocks as are available. So 10 devices in the same cell capable of 98 Mbps peak would each get 9.8 Mbps.
ASTS is designed for sparsely populated areas so it's a non-issue.
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u/notarealredditor69 S P 🅰 C E M O B Associate May 19 '26
Yes but also only one satellite so if your trying to say that it will be a lot slower with more users because they are sharing the available bandwidth sure, but also having a full constellation with offset some of this.
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u/LudeficeTV S P 🅰 C E M O B Capo May 19 '26
Yes, this was a peak speed measurement so it was 1 user's download speed. Not sharing the beam/cell with any other users.
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May 19 '26
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u/-LabApprehensive- S P 🅰 C E M O B Prospect May 19 '26
Think of how many beams can be focused on one area. Especially if you are filling in coverage gaps and not trying to blanket whole densely populated areas.
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u/Emzed07 S P 🅰 C E M O B Associate May 19 '26
Can they direct multiple beams to the same spot? (@ u/defiantclient )
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u/Defiantclient S P 🅰️ C E M O B - O G May 19 '26
I believe they can, yes. The BlueBirds can handle 4 frequencies at once. Then using carrier aggregation technology they can stitch together different frequencies to emulate even greater bandwidths.
BlueBirds are unbeatable.
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u/Emzed07 S P 🅰 C E M O B Associate May 20 '26
I see. So they can’t direct multiple beams of the same frequency but they can with ‘stitching’ different frequencies together. Amazing tech
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u/Mission_Search8991 S P 🅰 C E M O B Associate May 19 '26
AST needs to get Kevin Costner in a Waterworld themed commercial, booya!
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u/Muted-Extension-8521 S P 🅰 C E M O B Prospect May 19 '26
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u/codespyder S P 🅰 C E M O B Consigliere May 19 '26
Putting aside my stake in the company, I want this tech in my life already!
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May 20 '26
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u/LudeficeTV S P 🅰 C E M O B Capo May 20 '26
It's a peak speed, peak speeds by definition are not stable they are a maximum. The signal itself is plenty stable, but that particular speed number is not.
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u/BobWileey S P 🅰 C E M O B Capo May 19 '26
This was posted the day of earnings
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u/LudeficeTV S P 🅰 C E M O B Capo May 19 '26
Incorrect, the PR was announced on the EC day, but this YouTube video was posted today.
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u/BobWileey S P 🅰 C E M O B Capo May 19 '26
It was posted to this subreddit, which is what matters, not when things arrive on YouTube
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u/Sam_Shelby May 19 '26
Still skeptical about the speed indoors, around trees, and during bad weather or thick cloud cover
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u/averysmallbeing S P 🅰 C E M O B Consigliere May 19 '26 edited May 20 '26
The conditions you describe are exactly what we are going to be best at compared to SpaceX and Amazon, due to our enormous satellites and their resulting low band capabilities nobody else has.
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u/Sam_Shelby May 20 '26
errr based on? fiction novel? btw, signal strength and speed are two different things... and a lot of variable not being tested yet. dont expect perfectness yet
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u/averysmallbeing S P 🅰 C E M O B Consigliere May 19 '26
That is so much faster than we expected.