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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It's hilarious you think $500 per home would cover running fiber to low density rural areas.
if that were true these areas would all have high speed internet years ago, since the monthly billing would make such runs quickly profitable.
Real cost would be much higher depending on the area.
Also- in at least some places- states have passed laws banning local governments from offering broadband- in part because of how much $ the ISPs lobbies have thrown at them to avoid competition.... which is another nice aspect to starlink- it bypasses any local/state attempts to block it.
Upload speed and latency as well.
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As others have stated this is for people who don't have good options for service. I think there are a lot more people out there in this situation than most realize. It is not just people who live in the middle of no where.... I live ~40 miles from Washington DC and ~1.5 miles from a fiber line and I can't get anything except cell. Comcast will not give a quote to dig a line and connect service.
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this internet is not meant to replace fiber and cable internet. It is mainly for people in rural areas like myself that our best options aren't too great.
5G will be around/better than 100 mbps.
ATT, Verizon, and TMobile offer home internet if you in a covered region for this service (not sure if it'll open up to all areas covered by their mobile networks).
Just wondering the limits of this business. Starlink is being explored for stock market IPO. Obviously great for rural and underdeveloped countries, but will 1st world then have to cover the costs? Intriguing way to bringing internet to the globe, but will Starlink make money or is this all altruism?
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This is a steal for me (im in the states). Lots and lots of places are like this where cable isn't available.
Honestly anything under 30ms is really usable without any real impact to user experience. 50ms you start to notice.
Starlink on the other hand is serving real customers and launching satellites every month, sometimes more and is likely to expand coverage to all of North America by end of 2021.
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Here's Microsoft with actual user data instead of the trash "if anyone in your entire zip code has broadband, everyone does" measure:
https://blogs.microsoft.com/on-th...americans/ [microsoft.com]
162.8 million unable to use the internet at broadband speeds in the US.
That's about half the population of the country.
In any case I don't find the data from your article to be credible at all, especially since "broadband speeds" isn't even defined and is certainly subjective. You can make the data say whatever you want depending on if you define broadband speeds as 1mbps, 10, 100, 500 etc.
It of course would be great to get everyone connected.
Thanks for sharing the article. It was a good read.
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