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Anyone who has lived with rural internet will be blown away by 90MB. This is an incredibly high bar.
by vlunkr 4y ago
Anyone who has lived with rural internet will be blown away by 90MB. This is an incredibly high bar.
- lostlogin 4y agoThey will, and they are judging by reviews. It’s a bit nitpicky but that B needs to be a lowercase one.
- ketzo 4y agoIt’s an incredibly high bar that SpaceX explicitly said it would meet in order to receive more government funds. It’s not an arbitrary threshold.
- happyopossum 4y ago> that SpaceX explicitly said it would meet By 2028? So where exactly is the sky falling?
- panick21_ 4y agoSky is not falling, people just make a big deal because its SpaceX and Musk.
- ketzo 4y agoWell, the article makes the point that Starlink is definitely not under anything close to what it’s expected “peak load” will be, and even so, it’s not currently meeting speed requirements. But mostly, I agree — the article seems a little over-worried.
- olyjohn 4y agoI didn't know why people are getting bad speeds, because I'm regularly exceeding these speeds on my dish. Starlink requires self-installation and I'm willing to bet that a lot of people don't understand how to set it up properly. I will say it took me over 2 weeks to really get a good location, top some trees and set up a proper mount above the house. People post pictures of their dishes just sitting on the ground, and a lot of people don't have patience or time to get the connection working well.
- wdb 4y agoEven in Central London (UK) that's fast internet. I can't get 90MB in Zone 1