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• enbyecho@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Of course you get downvoted. Because people don’t know. Let me try to help educate y’all.

  In many rural areas in the US there is NO (as in zero, nada, zilch) cable, DSL or even mobile/LTE. Nothing. I know because I live in one of those areas. So your internet options are:

  1. Read books and talk to people
  2. A traditional satellite provider like Hughesnet or Viasat, where you’ll have 10 GB daytime MONTHLY quotas, 800ms latency and extremely poor service.
  3. Twiddle your thumbs and call it twidder.

  Until Starlink came along I could not work remotely, stream any content or game. Despite being usually 20 MBps down, Hughesnet was so high latency that page loads were usually 10-20 seconds or more. A lot of things that had short timeouts simply didn’t work. So yeah, I self-flaggilate every time I pay the bill but Starlink has allowed us to have a normal internet life.

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  • rabber@lemmy.ca ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Yeah thats why i opt for low effort comments because if you’re right you’re downvoted, thanks for doing the typing cuz I wasn’t going to

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    • rezifon@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Yeah thats why i opt for low effort comments because even if you’re right you’re downvoted

      A day later and I notice that your low effort comment was downvoted, but the other comment with detail and explanation is 9:1 upvoted. Maybe it’s the low effort part that’s earning you the downvotes and not the underlying opinion.

      Lemmy community is garbo.

      All you post and all you read is all this community will ever be (apologies to Pink Floyd).

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      • rabber@lemmy.ca ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        Don’t have upvotes or downvotes turned on so wouldn’t know

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      • pewgar_seemsimandroid@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        .ml is pointless

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  • pewgar_seemsimandroid@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    yes, not even dial up

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    • enbyecho@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      yes, not even dial up (i think)

      Apparently some still do exist. 56 KBps… woohoo.

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      • pewgar_seemsimandroid@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        sone half as interesting video had something about communities relying on dial up still.

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• echodot@feddit.uk ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  That literally is, it’s called Oneweb. SpaceX even launch their satellites rather amusingly.

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  • enbyecho@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    That literally is, it’s called Oneweb. SpaceX even launch their satellites rather amusingly.

    You need to correct your post. As has been pointed out, Oneweb is not available for residential use. You simply cannot order it. The best you could do is go in with neighbors and set up community broadband. They don’t publish prices but I read somewhere that you are looking at $1500 per month or more.

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  • Bgugi@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Image or am I just deficient?

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  • HelixDab2@lemm.ee ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    As far as I can tell, they don’t offer internet services to end-users. Or, if they do, it’s buried pretty deep in their site (which makes their site a poor design). OTOH, Starlink makes it very easy to see if you’re in an area that can get coverage, and to order service. I live in an area where Starlink would cost 50% more than my only other non-satellite option, and be double or triple the speed at their low end.

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  • rabber@lemmy.ca ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    So confidently incorrect, you must have lots of reddit karma lol

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