You can getcha some Starlink for $99 with a $500-and-it's-yours hardware package. A friend got in on the beta and he's reporting 178, which I thought was a lot. It's a lot more than the 8 or 12 he got before, but Starlink says they're shooting for 1GB.
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Feb 14, 2021 - 9:20am
I’m supposed to have Fios 100/100 Mbps but it rarely is on the nose. This morning it’s 60/56 Mbps. And my phone/internet costs $73/month. It’s a love hate relationship.
You can getcha some Starlink for $99 with a $500-and-it's-yours hardware package. A friend got in on the beta and he's reporting 178, which I thought was a lot. It's a lot more than the 8 or 12 he got before, but Starlink says they're shooting for 1GB.
(Aaron Epstein) says heâs been an AT&T customer for 60 years (and backs it up with a @pacbell.net email address), and says heâs disappointed that the company isnât keeping up with competitors when it comes to his areaâs internet.
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I'm impressed. I would have jumped ship a long time ago.
Funny how I probably interpret this story so differently from everybody else. My immediate reaction is this is so cool. In other countries and perhaps other periods in US history, the victim who dared complain would risk ending up in jail or worse.
As for spending $10K on the advert..... I reckon Aaron Epstein could have managed the same result through a much less expensive path. These modern oligopolies are quite vulnerable to determined citizens and consumers.
You can getcha some Starlink for $99 with a $500-and-it's-yours hardware package. A friend got in on the beta and he's reporting 178, which I thought was a lot. It's a lot more than the 8 or 12 he got before, but Starlink says they're shooting for 1GB.
Re-purposed coaxial cable to the curb here. Actually I am quite happy with 120 down and 7 up. Much better than the (never fully) ADSL 15 down and (never fully) 1 up that was the only non-satellite option before. Now that was painful! Still enough to stream 320 kbps RP though.
Apparently our ISP can provide up to 250 Mbps download speeds on coaxial cable elsewhere in the interior of BC. Not sure why that option is not available here.
Many, many factors - who else is on your segment, and what are they doing, what route is your traffic taking, who configured the router that your traffic is using, how are they prioritizing traffic.... Past performance is no guarantee of future results...
Cox rocks! My pension from the 8 years I worked with them is more than the one I would have gotten for the 19 years I worked for the system here in town. I opted for a lump sum instead.
Many, many factors - who else is on your segment, and what are they doing, what route is your traffic taking, who configured the router that your traffic is using, how are they prioritizing traffic.... Past performance is no guarantee of future results...
I ask out of sheer ignorance: Does anyone need download speeds of more than 30Mbps? I gather you can stream 4K video at that rate. What more can you do with SeriousLee's relatively pokey 120Mbps?
Yes. Download and upload speeds are positively correlated. For serious professional purposes, higher upload speeds are helpful. That said SL's stats are pretty decent. We get the same download speed if I shut down the VPN tunnel. Lee's upload speed is better than ours. 7 Mbps upload — what we have — is not bad.
I would want upload speeds in excess of 5 Mbps and download speeds in excess of 50 Mbps. Lower latency is nice too. 250 Mbps download would be ideal but not always available.
