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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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.
It's no wonder they're trying to get lines installed with SpaceX potentially infringing on future business for them. Right now in Ohio, Mansfield is a beta test city and we're about 60 miles south of them...we'll see who wins the race to get us to the 100mbps+ speed. I'm leaning towards SpaceX knowing their goal for much faster speeds in the near future, where Spectrum just allows up to 100mbps, likely not going to get anything close to that anyway.
Upload speed and latency as well.
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Starlink is also targeting rural/unserved areas.
I have rural fixed wireless internet. Its OK but data capped and limited to 25Mb, which beat my 2Mb dsl all to heck.
I also know that no one else within a half mile of me can get the service because the tower is full. If they had terabit backhaul, that would not be the case.
And the thing is, they could have backhaul. There is a big fiber data corridor running along I65 to the Chicago peering points. The ISP I worked at had OC3 in the early 2000s and I know a lot of that dark fiber got lit up and/or multiplexers added to boost capacity.
If the carriers here would put in a relatively short 5-15mi of backhaul, they could have a fiber drop. And yet...they have not. So if it isn't worth it here, with a couple of towns of 10k nearby, I guarantee its not happening across the vast swaths of corn country.
https://arstechnica.com/tech-poli...udy-finds/
https://arstechnica.com/tech-poli...20-states/
https://arstechnica.com/tech-poli...nd-access/
https://arstechnica.com/tech-poli...ntic-error
https://arstechnica.com/tech-poli...-coverage/
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.
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