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Exactly! If I want to live like my cousins from 25K years ago I would go live on a mountain in Tanzania. Otherwise, I would happily accept the benefits of living in a modern society with all the modern amenities they provide.
 
KMFJD said:
no shit sherlock, no one in their right mind would use this solution if they have cable/fiber available
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I noticed that Comcast has been silently updating their speeds in the background and not advertising it:

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I only have 300 Mb/s "Blast" service, yet I can suddenly download at speeds over 400 Mb/s now. Frontier's VDSL service isn't offering anything approaching this speed, so they must be getting scared of competition from Starlink and Gonetspeed (a new Fiber competitor now near my area).

I'd rather give my money to Elon Musk instead of Comcast, though. Comcast's CEO would probably spend my monthly access fees on a new yacht, while Elon would spend it on Dogecoin or a spaceship going to Mars 🙂
 
I guess I am that dense because I am not sure what you are complaining about in my post above. But thanks for attacking me. Much depreciated.
 
It has gotten a lot more stable, the dish appear to move a lot more, i get way less dead air then i did in the spring/early summer. There are issues during big storms, it does not work very well during the bigger ones.
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I have had it hit 300Mbs while downloading from steam, I dread having to use my wisp backup as it's much slower
 
KMFJD said:
It has gotten a lot more stable, the dish appear to move a lot more, i get way less dead air then i did in the spring/early summer. There are issues during big storms, it does not work very well during the bigger ones.
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I have had it hit 300Mbs while downloading from steam, I dread having to use my wisp backup as it's much slower
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Whats the service availability like are there long blackouts or long stretches of sub 5mb down speeds?
BarkingGhostar said:
LOL, 50 ms latency. I'll keep my fiber connection with its 2 ms latency. Oh, and its 950 Mbps/950Mbps down/upload.
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This isn’t trying to compete with wired connections. It is competing against 5G and data caps or the peeps who have no wired option.
 
BarkingGhostar said:
LOL, 50 ms latency. I'll keep my fiber connection with its 2 ms latency. Oh, and its 950 Mbps/950Mbps down/upload.
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That's super good for satelite internet. This service is not to compete with land based internet but to provide where service is otherwise not really available. It is magnitudes better than services like Xplornet, Telesat etc through geostationary satellites.
 
Fanatical Meat said:
Whats the service availability like are there long blackouts or long stretches of sub 5mb down speeds?


This isn’t trying to compete with wired connections. It is competing against 5G and data caps or the peeps who have no wired option.
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During the bad storms the ping jumps, lost packets, lack of signal, so far that's amounted to about 30 minutes of downtime since March
 
BarkingGhostar said:
LOL, 50 ms latency. I'll keep my fiber connection with its 2 ms latency. Oh, and its 950 Mbps/950Mbps down/upload.
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It's not for you

It's for the folks that either have no hardwire option at all, or the best choice is 6Mbps ATT DSL. Several people at work have larger rural lots that the major ISPs don't run to because it's not profitable enough given how much cable they need to run per individual customer. Three of them signed up for starlink and the 2 that got it already say that it's not perfect, but worlds better than what they had.
 
We did get an email from our rural economic development council, they advised us that we could run a fiber optic line, i think they said it was over $700k just to run the line, locked into a 5(?) year contract then as well, plus monthly charges afterwards....i'd love to move closer to a city so that we could get fast fiber, but i don't think the people in the city would enjoy all the smells associated with a farm.
 
I'd rather have dialup than live near near a city. I grew up when everything was shitty. 2.5 channels of tv, fast food was a kfc and McDonalds on the other side of town, and "foreign" food was the pizza shop or Chinese place. Electric went out every time a gnat farted, and you couldn't buy alcohol on Sunday. Those speeds/ping are amazing, and you don't have to deal with comcast. If it goes down every once in awhile, whatever. That shit's luxury. I'm using a crappy walmart cell phone for internet. Even with all the limitations, it's worth it to not have deal with big corp's shading billing and service practices. If the time comes I don't like it, I just quit paying and get something else. No hassle.
 
Thinking about whether or not I should go through with Starlink or get my deposit back. My only current options for ISPs are by radio link (current subscription) or ViaSat/Hughesnet satellite. My radio link was for 20Mb down/6MB up service when I placed my deposit for Starlink. My ISP has since bumped this service tier up to 50Mb/15Mb. While the potentially faster download speed of Starlink sounds good for a few dollars more than I'm currently spending, the upload is the same and our real bottleneck (camera uploads mostly). Not all that convinced the faster download and similar upload are worth the cost of the system, extra $20/month and time to get the dish mounted and setup. Also, customer service for the ISP is excellent. They are quick to e-mail about service interruptions, letting me know what happened and when it should be fixed.

What do you all think?
Thanks!
 
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