There are alternatives if you only need short range, or if you can tolerate high latency. And of course there are fire-and-forget cruise missiles that don't need communications at all.

But there aren't all that many other options. Historically, satellite internet companies like Iridium, Globalstar and Teledesic have not fared well.

The author's youtube channel also contains a video of him doing a speedtest on a starlink mini while driving on a highway.

Unless there's a software limit built in that turns them off, or the drone's doing some crazy high-G-force acrobatics.

> your laptop's Ethernet adapter

The device as-designed likely wouldn't work with your laptop's ethernet adapter - hence why the author of TFA placed an isolation transformer and jack ...on a breakout board.