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The pre-starlink stuff isn’t just expensive. It’s slow, has crazy high latency, and low transfer caps (the biggest you can get for geosynchronous might be 20GB

by swiley 7y ago

The pre-starlink stuff isn’t just expensive. It’s slow, has crazy high latency, and low transfer caps (the biggest you can get for geosynchronous might be 20GB a month no matter how much you want to pay.) Really anything is better than what’s currently available in the rural US. Having grown up there I’m kind of mad that we give so much spectrum to cell companies who block people from setting up terrestrial radio networks in places like this.

shaklee3 7y ago
That's completely false. Several providers have over 100GB/mo plans.
- baq 7y ago
  Latency is completely true. Can’t be otherwise because speed of light is a thing.
  - shaklee3 7y ago
    The latency part is true, but the cap is not: https://www.satelliteinternet.com/resources/unlimited-satellite-internet/ https://www.satelliteinternet.com/resources/unlimited-satell... We can argue about whether latency matters for most people, but it's not going to go anywhere.
    - DangitBobby 7y ago
      Whew $150/mo for 100 GB of data
      - alasdair_ 7y ago
        That actually doesn’t seem that bad, especially for the middle of nowhere.
    - swiley 7y ago
      Ok, that’s new. Back when I had it you couldn’t buy anything over 20GB.
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alasdair_ 7y ago
> the biggest you can get for geosynchronous might be 20GB a month no matter how much you want to pay. Couldn’t you pay for more than one account and combine them? Or are you saying the cap for an entire satellite is 20GB per month?