Comment on SpaceX projected 20 million Starlink users by 2022—it ended up with 1 million

exohuman@programming.dev ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

• netburnr@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  It’s especially more cost effective than rural wireless ISPs. Those places are straight crooks.

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  • breakingcups@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    As opposed to Elon? 😅

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    • CmdrShepard@lemmy.one ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Yeah the alternative is $200 a month for 2mbps with a 20GB data cap. You can’t even stream video with this service.

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      • netburnr@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        Yeah my parents had dish or wisp before. I’m thankful for “skynet” as my dad calls it, so much faster for less money

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• SpliceVW@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Have they needed to? My mom has no high speed internet to her house. She signed up for Starlink like 2 years ago. Still on the waitlist.

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  • CmdrShepard@lemmy.one ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    My coworkers mom signed up for it about 1.5 years ago and got connected about a year ago in rural WA. Are you sure you’re still on the list?

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    • mosiacmango@lemm.ee ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      They dosh them out to more profitable areas first, or areas with more open slots.

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    • SpliceVW@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Yeah, they were notified they’ll have the chance soon. I think it depends on your area. As I understand it, they were being very limited with accepting users as they continue to expand capacity.

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• Buckshot@programming.dev ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Maybe that’s normal in US but it’s way overpriced in UK. They want £75/mo and I’m paying £35 for 500Mb in a rural area and there’s several different providers to choose from. My sister is even more remote than me and they’re getting fibre this week.

  I could also get unlimited 4G for about £20.

  I don’t know anyone who is using starlink

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  • tankplanker@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Its priced at people who wouldn’t get anything more than a few mb in remote areas who have no other choice, rather than a direct competitor against high speed fiber or someone lucky enough to live line of sight to a 5G mast.

    I have fiber at home and starlink for my RV, for travel starlink works perfectly. I have a proper 4g router and external aerial for my van and it never comes close to the speed I get from starlink. I know people who cruise on boats and it works perfectly for them as well (as long as its kept dry).

    Mobile high speed internet where you struggle to get even enough mobile phone signal to make a phone call it has no real competitor at that price point. Boats in particular its transformed the market, it used to be thousands per month for high speed internet at sea with any sort of decent data allowance.

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  • exohuman@programming.dev ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    I wish the USA had the options you just posted in rural areas. We pay for broadband expansion out of our taxes and they still won’t expand. It’s sad.

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