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> It's 2020. And still, here in rural USA, there is exactly one affordable plan ($70/mo) in this area that doesn't have bandwidth caps and the best sustained s
by FlyMoreRockets 6y ago
> It's 2020.
And still, here in rural USA, there is exactly one affordable plan ($70/mo) in this area that doesn't have bandwidth caps and the best sustained speed I can get is 170 Kb/s. That's small b for bit, not big B for bytes, btw.
I've been on the list for Starlink beta but they don't seem to be rolling it out for the region yet.
Web page bloat bothers me quite a bit. 100 mb? There are smaller Linux distros.
Edit: definitely will be going back to using the Lynx text mode browser in the near future, I had no idea it had regained functinality for casual browsing.
- hh3k0 6y ago> And still, here in rural USA, there is exactly one affordable plan ($70/mo) in this area that doesn't have bandwidth caps and the best sustained speed I can get is 170 Kb/s. God damn, I can vividly picture the bald 'free-market' eagle screaming "freedom" in the impressive voice of a red-tailed hawk.