for those who want to set up their Starlink account and check for the transaction, hit the forgot password link at the login page, put in the email you used and you should get the link to finish setting up your account. - wookie
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expiredClintiePoo posted Feb 08, 2021 11:03 PM
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expiredClintiePoo posted Feb 08, 2021 11:03 PM
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Someone mentioned up to 2.5Gb/month totally unthrottled.
If you use real data instead of the junk the recent FCC was putting out, something like half of americans don't have real broadband access.
Fastest I can get at my house is 8 Mb DSL, no matter how much I'm willing to pay.
And I only get that without a data cap by paying business rates.
I'd happily pay double what Starlink is asking just to get half the average speed users of starlink in the beta are receiving.
Even that would be 5x faster than what I have now.
If I got average starlink beta speeds it'd be a 10x improvement.
And the targeted final speeds would be a roughly 120x improvement over the best I can get now.
https://www.fastcompany
We had 8 meg as a family of 3. Our TV a couple years ago at that time was only 1080. Never had issues when my wife was streaming stuff and I was playing WOW. With 4k content at our new place with 25 meg internet, never had issues with one 4k TV streaming with lag elsewhere.
Main thing I suggest to everyone is avoid ISP hardware. I have fixed a lot of lag issues for friends simply by a shift to user owned hardware that doesn't suck and pays for itself overtime.
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I go to their house to clean up the spyware they install by clicking on sh_t.
Can't send them e-mail on their flip phones, so it's AOL.
I had AOL back in the early 90s.
Dialup BBS before that.
Speaking of which, anybody need a 56K PCMCIA modem?
2400 ISA card?
Anyone?
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=t2jIUfa
It states "Residential Use. Services and the Starlink Kit are for use exclusively at the address you provided in your Order, and only for personal, family, household or residential use"
If i move it out of the address provided on the order, will it stop working?
That's what their FAQ says.
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Do you really think they have a terabit cross connect in BFE? Because I don't think they bothered. Rural areas get the smallest backhaul they can afford and they run it until it dies. A lot of these towers were from the smaller regional carriers that have been absorbed. I worked at an ISP that provided circuits from MCI/Worldcom and Qwest to rural areas and they were all very minimal orders when new backhaul was required.
Those rural towers had the minimal gear necessary to provide service because the cost per user is so high, and everything upstream is similarly bare-minimum.
Which means that now they are just selling the idle capacity on the existing towers to get the FCC funds.
Who in their right mind would pay for that kind of service today?
Wait it out until there's actually something worth getting--if that day ever arrives.
During beta, users can expect to see data speeds vary from 50Mb/s to 150Mb/s and latency from 20ms to 40ms in most locations over the next several months as we enhance the Starlink system. There will also be brief periods of no connectivity at all.
As we launch more satellites, install more ground stations and improve our networking software, data speed, latency and uptime will improve dramatically. For latency, we expect to achieve 16ms to 19ms by summer 2021.
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