I hate T-Mobile, but I really hate Elon Musk. So while I’m not happy for T-Mobile, I do enjoy watching Musk suffer in any way whatsoever.
In a fight between Elon Musk and traditional telecoms, I’m cheering for the fight
Musk yes, but there are quite a few Ukrainian servicemen not happy, I think.
Dang, I was hoping there was a competitor. I’m boycotting Musk companies as best I can
I invite you to join me in rural Australia, and choose from the many options available. /s
Yeah, sadly SpaceX and Tesla are both very promising companies primarily held back by Elon Musk.
SpaceX sure but Tesla has been in decline for so long that I wouldn’t be surprised if by the end of the decade it’s either irrelevant or sold off / taken from Musk.
Tesla cars have always been overpriced, low quality, unsafe toys with a shiny case around them.
The first few iterations were good, when they went mass market they let quality go.
Iris2 and Eutselsat OneWeb are currently massively expanding their network - for European coverage first,though, but with the explicit goal to be a Musk alternative.
Oh, so that’s why my internet went out for 4 hours yesterday. RIP.
I’ll upvote anything bad happening to musk.
This makes me think that the Starlink system is very poorly designed. I know there are hundreds of satellites, and a large number of base stations.
Even if a large chunk of the satellites were taken out and a few base stations failed, shouldn’t the system keep working, just over a different path?
This sounds very much not like a hardware failure, but more like somebody fucked up.
You’re off ten fold. They have thousands. Around 5000 with a planned 12k after gen 3 has been fully deployed. It’s definitely a “let the intern push to prod” type of scenario by numbers alone.
They probably dorked up a bgp route or something. It was down globally.
That would do it!
Did you even read the article? It clearly states a core SOFTWARE component. Not hardware.
Considering it is designed by an American mega corp, yes it is probably poorly designed because they go for profit maximalisation.
HugesNet has low throughput but it’s pretty reliable. I had high hopes for Starlink but it seems to be a dud.
I’m sorry, but not even having a Musk backed product as my only alternative could get me to use HugesNet’s antifunctional service. Literally dialup is better.
That’s what I hear, but my experience is different
My coworkers mom paid $200 a month with a 20GB datacap for HughesNet and couldn’t even stream Netflix or Youtube. Their service is completely useless in 2025.
It’s been over a year since the last big Starlink outage. That’s a lot better than my old DSL provider.
That’s a ridiculously low bar in 2025. What even is twisted pair DSL??
I live in a country praised for its IT industry, digital government and whatever
I got off ADSL in 2024. Fucking lol. I don’t even live on a farm or anything. Lucky to receive fiber though, now they want to prioritize 5G home connections instead.
yeah? For some reason I thought it had outages here and there all the time.
Still, they were down for almost 3 hours today and that’s a lot worse than my old DSL provider.
I have a place in the boonies and I use starlink. I find it to be vastly superior to the only other semi-viable option, line of site. Speeds aren’t as great as they use to be and I’ll be happy to change when another better or similar option comes along.
I do experience mico-outages every few days. Like a 1 to 2 second drop that I would only notice with vid chats or gaming.
I do have a media server and surf the seven seas. Starlink is crap for that, so I found a new home for it as I move my residence out here.
GOOD
Got a nice fibre-optic connection, have you? Try throttling that to <10Mbps and you might understand what some people have to deal with. DSL at 10Mbps from an evil corporation, or 150Mbps from an evil corporation, hmmmmm, what a choice.
It’s easy to shit on the owner, but have some sympathy for folk who don’t have a reasonable alternative.
Hear hear!
Everyone is like “Move out of the city, live a life closer to nature” but also “If you use the only service that truly enables that you suck!”
I’ll take what I can get until something as good or better comes along.
Verizon is finally laying fiber optic in western maryland. I can’t wait to ditch Starlink and save ~$100 a month in the process.
