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This is misleading. What the Trump admin did was change it so fiber is not the preferred technology for internet. Let's be realistic. They were NEVER going to lay fiber out into the middle of nowhere to serve like 4 houses. It was never going to happen. Even if it did, they would charge 20k/mo for the internet connection to be active even if the fiber was already there.

The rules for this were specifically created to keep it from assisting/paying for Starlink which is still one of the best possible options you have when you are not near a metro or a city.

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>The Trump administration is eliminating a preference for fiber Internet in a $42.45 billion broadband deployment program, a change that is expected to reduce spending on the most advanced wired networks while directing more money to Starlink and other non-fiber Internet service providers. One report suggests Starlink could obtain $10 billion to $20 billion under the new rules. Secretary of Commerce Howard Lutnick criticized the Biden administration's handling of the Broadband Equity, Access, and Deployment (BEAD) program in a statement yesterday. Lutnick said that "because of the prior Administration's woke mandates, favoritism towards certain technologies, and burdensome regulations, the program has not connected a single person to the Internet and is in dire need of a readjustment."

This is misleading. What the Trump admin did was change it so fiber is not the preferred technology for internet. Let's be realistic. They were NEVER going to lay fiber out into the middle of nowhere to serve like 4 houses. It was never going to happen. Even if it did, they would charge 20k/mo for the internet connection to be active even if the fiber was already there. The rules for this were specifically created to keep it from assisting/paying for Starlink which is still one of the best possible options you have when you are not near a metro or a city. Archive: https://archive.today/5I0Rc From the post: >>The Trump administration is eliminating a preference for fiber Internet in a $42.45 billion broadband deployment program, a change that is expected to reduce spending on the most advanced wired networks while directing more money to Starlink and other non-fiber Internet service providers. One report suggests Starlink could obtain $10 billion to $20 billion under the new rules. Secretary of Commerce Howard Lutnick criticized the Biden administration's handling of the Broadband Equity, Access, and Deployment (BEAD) program in a statement yesterday. Lutnick said that "because of the prior Administration's woke mandates, favoritism towards certain technologies, and burdensome regulations, the program has not connected a single person to the Internet and is in dire need of a readjustment."

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Starlink just fucking works too. I have literally zero complaints. It's the only option for me and it works all the time and is relatively fast.

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It's my backup connection. In the future (soon I hope) when I move out to the sticks it will probably be my primary. Looking forward to it. Every time our "land line" has gone down it has done everything we needed without issue for the entire house.

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Yea we're "in the sticks" the only other option is DSL at 3-5mbps or a local shit satellite provider. Starlink is hands down unrivaled.

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I have worked with the "old" sat connections for years for people out in the sticks. Minimum latency was like 600ms. Completely un-fucking-usable on the modern web for about anything but sending emails.

Starlink is better than having a WISP(Wireliess ISP) in so many ways it basically makes them irrelevant at this point. It works better than cell service too. I have had to fail-over to starlink when the local net was down since the cell-hotspot was so saturated by every single house near me using it that it was basically like having 56k.

Failover to the starlink and all of a sudden its no problem. I can have video meetings, stream netflix, Calls over WiFi with no issue.. Just works.