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It’s one of those use cases where I would very reluctantly take the L and order Starlink.

Classic satellite Internet is borderline unusable. Forget about any sort of call or video chat, you’ll be seconds behind on watching streams. If you want to stream yourself, it won’t be great and the stream delay will be horrible.

You can do bulk download, like downloading large games, that’s about the only thing that works well.

Also last I heard, the data caps and bandwidth were also really crap.

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IWW4@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago
Ok bud, yeah I really don’t want feed the nazi, I have Verizon, but I live on an island and wires are vulnerable. This isn’t critical but I would like to reduce the cable

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- Max_P@lemmy.max-p.me ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago
  Hughes will work okay as a backup internet if that’s what you’re after. Typically when people talk about Hughes they’re really desperate and satellite is the only option at all.
  
  I would very much rather not feed the nazi either, but that was my only Internet option I’d probably have to consider it. Although I also probably wouldn’t consider moving somewhere without decent connectivity, given I’m a sysadmin and really need the bandwidth.
  
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  - IWW4@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago
    I have Verizon AT&T and other wired options were I am, but i live on an island that has numerous outages so I am exploring satellite, craned WISP options.
    
    Thanks for the feedback man.
    
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- BombOmOm@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago
  If you are within visual sight of the mainland, you can use a pair of point-to-point communication dishes to get internet from the mainland and beam it to yourself. These dishes, only having to communicate over a few miles and with direct line-of-sight, are pretty reliable.
  
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