Comment Re:42,000 nodes? (Score 1) 64
It would be a private internet if anything were actually hosted on those nodes. At best it's a private peer exchange in the making, with the caveat that the available bandwidth of ISL with Starlink v2-mini constitutes only about 5% the carrying capacity of an individual Starlink ground-sat-ground relay, meaning we're not at the point that other ISPs would see a performance benefit to routing traffic via Starlink as opposed to terrestrial undersea cable (that irresponsible/malicious countries can just drag an anchor across, hint hint CHINA). I'd expect the full size Starlink v2 satellites launched by Starship to improve that by adding more ISL per satellite so that it functions more like a mesh network across orbital planes as opposed to only bridging with the previous and next satellites in the same orbital plane.