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It comes down to data caps, in my experience. Especially in rural areas. My current options: Dial-up (the 'high speed' option offered by big telco [F** you AT

It comes down to data caps, in my experience. Especially in rural areas. My current options: Dial-up (the 'high speed' option offered by big telco [F** you AT&T]): No cap, $50/mo Satellite: 15gb/mo cap, $80/mo Cell: "No cap", but throttled to 1x at 2gb/mo/line. $138/mo for 2 lines. Thank Satan/God/Buddha/Whoever, the local ISP secured a rural internet grant to run fiber past our house this year.

jointpdf 6y ago
Mildly interesting fact: the USDA issues grants for broadband development (in the US, obviously): https://www.usda.gov/reconnect https://www.usda.gov/reconnect
sandworm101 6y ago
>> the local ISP secured a rural internet grant Not Satan. The federal government who setup the grants. The state government who licensed the experts who did the work. The local governments who issued the permits and made sure they didn't cut into anything. And the IRS who collected the taxes that paid for the grants. All hail our functioning socialist system.
- beaconstudios 6y ago
  "socialism is when the government does stuff. And it's more socialism the more stuff it does. And if it does a real lot of stuff then it's communism"
toomuchtodo 6y ago
I have Starlink and a T-Mobile 5G home device (largish gray cylinder). T-Mobile: $50/month. No data caps. ~40-50mb/s down, ~5-10mb/s up. Intermittent connectivity drops (30-60 seconds at a time) and stalls. Line of sight to the tower. Device indicates I'm on LTE as 5G hasn't been enabled yet (either on the device or tower). Starlink: $100/month. No data caps. ~100mb/s down and up. No intermittency or stalls. Kids love watching Dishy acquire satellites. If your budget affords it, I would recommend Starlink.
- minitoar 6y ago
  T-mobile is capped sort of, once you hit like 50 GB you are throttled to worthless speeds.
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  - mason55 6y ago
    Not on home internet. I have the 4G version and used something like 1.5TB last month with no slowdowns (mostly just streaming 4K content)
  - hnburnsy 6y ago
    Check it out here... https://www.t-mobile.com/isp https://www.t-mobile.com/isp No price increase, no contract, no hardware fees, no data cap, $50 per month. With no commitment I am think of giving it a shot.
    - minitoar 6y ago
      Seems pretty good, is this new? I was recently looking at cellular internet providers and missed this.
      - hnburnsy 6y ago
        Check out r/tmobileisp for users discussing the service.
- mumblemumble 6y ago
  Is "no data caps" sustainable for Starlink? In my city, we had a wimax provider set up shop a while back (10 years now, I guess?). At first the promised, and delivered on, high speed and no data caps. Then more people started signing up, and clogging up the network, and they ended up imposing throttling and caps to try and deal with it.
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jointpdf 6y ago

Mildly interesting fact: the USDA issues grants for broadband development (in the US, obviously): https://www.usda.gov/reconnect https://www.usda.gov/reconnect

sandworm101 6y ago

>> the local ISP secured a rural internet grant Not Satan. The federal government who setup the grants. The state government who licensed the experts who did the work. The local governments who issued the permits and made sure they didn't cut into anything. And the IRS who collected the taxes that paid for the grants. All hail our functioning socialist system.

beaconstudios 6y ago
"socialism is when the government does stuff. And it's more socialism the more stuff it does. And if it does a real lot of stuff then it's communism"

toomuchtodo 6y ago

I have Starlink and a T-Mobile 5G home device (largish gray cylinder). T-Mobile: $50/month. No data caps. ~40-50mb/s down, ~5-10mb/s up. Intermittent connectivity drops (30-60 seconds at a time) and stalls. Line of sight to the tower. Device indicates I'm on LTE as 5G hasn't been enabled yet (either on the device or tower). Starlink: $100/month. No data caps. ~100mb/s down and up. No intermittency or stalls. Kids love watching Dishy acquire satellites. If your budget affords it, I would recommend Starlink.

minitoar 6y ago
T-mobile is capped sort of, once you hit like 50 GB you are throttled to worthless speeds.
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- mason55 6y ago
  Not on home internet. I have the 4G version and used something like 1.5TB last month with no slowdowns (mostly just streaming 4K content)
- hnburnsy 6y ago
  Check it out here... https://www.t-mobile.com/isp https://www.t-mobile.com/isp No price increase, no contract, no hardware fees, no data cap, $50 per month. With no commitment I am think of giving it a shot.
  - minitoar 6y ago
    Seems pretty good, is this new? I was recently looking at cellular internet providers and missed this.
    - hnburnsy 6y ago
      Check out r/tmobileisp for users discussing the service.
mumblemumble 6y ago
Is "no data caps" sustainable for Starlink? In my city, we had a wimax provider set up shop a while back (10 years now, I guess?). At first the promised, and delivered on, high speed and no data caps. Then more people started signing up, and clogging up the network, and they ended up imposing throttling and caps to try and deal with it.
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