Elon is blessed by the hand of God................
I pay about $90 now for wireless line-of-sight broad band now. Download usually fine except when we have bad weather then it is a coin flip if we will have service. Upload is acceptable with no problems that I am aware of.
I went to the provider’s modem since min got knocked out three times by lightning so I made that their problem. Guess what? They installed a surge protector they didn’t bother to mention to me before. Problem solved for $10 a month.
So tell me once again why Biden is determined to dump billions of dollars in “Broadband infrastructure”?
Seems to me the private sector is doing just fine.
The $500 equipment buy in is what is stopping me. I live in Eastern Washington where they initially placed these satellites into service and have excellent coverage.
I currently have wireless internet and pay $80/month for 20mbs down and 10mbs up. It mostly stable but when I have an issue the provider is Johnny on the spot to make corrections. Plus this is month to month service with no contract.
The $500 equipment buy in is what is stopping me. I live in Eastern Washington where they initially placed these satellites into service and have excellent coverage.
I currently have wireless internet and pay $80/month for 20mbs down and 10mbs up. It mostly stable but when I have an issue the provider is Johnny on the spot to make corrections. Plus this is month to month service with no contract.
Keep the government out of technology “infrastructure” projects and private interests will figure out how to supply a needed product or service.
I can just imagine how much faster advancements in home and local power generation would have developed without FDR’s subsidized “rural electrification” putting federal government investment into the model of massive power plants sending power hundreds of miles away.
It was not that alternatives were not possible, it was government power to subsidize one model meant private capital could not compete investing in alternatives.
Here is a live map of Starlink coverage. It seems pretty decent, but most domestic ground stations are not complete and operational. Seems like still in licensing stage with FCC...
We are beta testors for Starlink. Just received our dish and bracket, installed that yesterday, hook up today!
Hoping to beat the current speed of our internet, currently at 5 mps, most of you have 100, 500 or more.
Looking forward to this. I would even be happy to pay more to know I am not supporting Verizon. I don’t have TV, but it is impossible to get internet only. So I am paying for stupid local TV that I don’t watch on their “internet only” package.