Prior to and including IPO they have been on quite a marketing kick. Referral schemes, equipment rentals, discount plans for low usage etc. Seems like they’re trying hard to make the business make sense. I maintain that LEO (and WISP) ISPs should be limited to more extreme applications yet I see them all over the place in residential areas. Their technical achievements are impressive but if phone systems to remote areas were possible, then so should fibre optics.
Also this should be built by international organisations, not billionaires. A plague on Musk and a plague on Bezos.
Ma Bell had several decades to gain good ROI with POTS, while the rate of technology change today shrinks that outlook to just one to two decades. Plus the most profitable high income areas to be installing fiber now often have local laws requiring much more expensive underground installations so residents don’t have to see the ugly poles with wires hanging between them.
Which snap a lot more regularly now with the broken weather.
We’re still using dot-com fibre. There’s a long ROI.
Seems like every other 4x4 has one on the roof, every camper, people even mount them on their motorcycles.
I don’t think that’s really the issue, it’s the streaming that really does them in.
On one hand you have Netflix trying to cram 4k through and the neighbour is trying to have a phone call.
True, I don’t know if they already do it, but limiting media streams to 480p like cell providers do on some plans would probably lower congestion a lot. And maybe limiting large file transfers over a certain size to a lower priority and speed.
I’m not in a remote area, just a geographically inconvenient one. Two blocks over they have fiber. Not in my neighborhood. I have been complaining about this for well over a decade.
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The corporate version of privatize the profits, socialize the costs. Get in bed with billionaires and you’re an enemy of humanity.
If you use starlink, you deserve far worse. 5g is usually sufficient unless you’re out in the ocean or something. Either way it’s ruining the night sky, making launches more dangerous, destroying the ozone layer we tried so hard to repair, and supporting death and fascism.
destroying the ozone layer
This made me ask “wait, is that true” and apparently it is. Super, skin cancer for everyone. 🤦
Tldr aluminum from burning up satellites is a catalyst that breaks down ozone.
I wonder if wooden satellites would help. I don’t know how capable they are compared to normal ones, but it should reduce the amount of aluminium we launch into space.
5G in rural America is terrible. I can’t make a phone call in my house, let alone get an internet connection. I’m not even in a particularly remote area.
There are Starlink dishes everwhere you look here because it’s currently the only real option. It will probably be a while until they get some competition from Amazon.
Because they lobbied to shutdown running fiber to your community.
The local ISP has been promising fiber for over a decade. They waited until Starlink took most of their customers before they started putting it in.
Maybe someday someone can explain why ISPs are not municipal services like water and sewage.
Tell me you know nothing about rural living without telling you know nothing about rural living
I’ve been having occasional Internet issues over the last few years and was thinking about having a backup ISP.
A lot of people in my town suggest Starlink… And well, I’d rather not have Internet at all!
However, I did recently find these guys: https://www.computers4people.org/shield I’m gonna give these guys a shot.
It’s probably not comparable, but no way in hell am I ever signing up for Starlink.
That looks pretty good
Nah hes running out of dupes. Private equity is very, very stupid but theyre catching up
Elon Musk Is Charging Starlink Customers Gigantic Bogus Fees Because Its Network Is Being Crushed by [Musk’s] “High Demand” for more money
FTFY
Elon Musk Is Charging Starlink Customers Gigantic Bogus Fees Because Its Network Is Being Crushed by [Musk’s] “High Demand” for more
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Sieze his assets and throw him in prison
In China they probably would execute him.
Thanks for getting me aroused, stranger.
They like him there. His mom is fully set up in China.
Yes, there is a high demand for SpaceX to be less insolvent.
Lol. Lmao, even.
Skimping out on backbone capacity is definitely a Musk move 😂
So if you’re out on a farm, what’s the best option for Internet? Is 3g an option? (Either unlimited or a very large amount) Any line of sight service good?
Biden’s broadband equity program earmarked over $42MM to expand broadband; past admins were incentivizing telecom to take action, but lo and behold, doge slashed a gutted to move funding toward starlink.
Is there any source of high speed internet? You could look into a community mesh network.
Probably cellular-based internet.
You would be very surprised how many rural areas have barely-working cellular networks that are unreliable and not fast enough for usable data.
Guess this Nazi welfare queen’s government handouts aren’t enough.
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Violence against billionaires and trillionaire is not the answer. It is the question. And the answer IS YES.
Even my keyboard has trouble coping with the concept of a trillionaire.
Company gives me a Starlink for deep remote work. I’m doing my part!
