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I have a shit radio connection that fluctuates from no internet to 18mbps download speeds. There is no possibility for Comcast or Century Link etc...

I signed up for updates on Starlink and haven't received any other updates since submitting my location to them. I had to buy the equipment I use now and it was half the cost of what Starlink is asking. My current payment is ⅓ the cost as well but I would gladly pay what they are asking for a solution to this hell.

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Sure. But is half of America ready to pay $500 up front for the gear, and $99 a month for service? I....am not.

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In five years when I'm ready to sell my house? YES.

GOD YES. I will move to fucking Pluto and still have good pipes.

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I don't see why they are exaggerating so much. 100Mbit isn't very good for terrestrialb broadband, but that's not really the market. The market is people who would otherwise be stuck with shitty DSL, other satellite, or, God forbid, dialup.

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"Other satellite" is also a "God forbid" situation too. 1000ms min latency and get this... 10gig max data a month all for about $100 (I think over). Then it restricts you to what is quite literally dial up speeds, still of course at the 1 second latency FUN STUFF. All it takes is one thing auto updating to hit that data max sometimes. The service is horrible. It can be used for e-mail and web surfing (painful) and not really much more.

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Ha. Sounds like “Hughs Net”. That’s the only thing available here at my place. There is no way I could pay for that kind of internet, and I don't. We use our unlimited phone service. If I need to download an update or movie, I go into town and use WiFi at the library. We are used to it now.

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I’m definitely in their market. I am very rural. Copper phone line no fiber optics. No available cable service. Only possible internet provider is “Hughs Net” satellite, $70 a month 25mb download speed and 20gb max then they throttle you down to fax machine speed. We have ATT unlimited in our phone and that’s it. Normal LTE connection for us is 1 bar. Many times, no data service. No way I’m spending $500 on their receiver and router. I’m used to the way we do it now, no tv no hardwire internet.

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I have "1Gbit symmetric" fiber coming into my (home) office. I rarely bother to plugin to enjoy it, but when I do it runs 700-800Mbit to a local (same city) server. Pings usually <10ms also locally. IDK why I'm telling you this; I just happy I moved last year :)

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let me be a hypocrite... get off the internet.

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