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This is so much bullshit. Satellite coverage should not be counted, because that requires a clear view of the sky. My property and most others in this area ar
by voakbasda 4y ago
This is so much bullshit.
Satellite coverage should not be counted, because that requires a clear view of the sky. My property and most others in this area are covered in forest, so those options are right out.
My only options are terrestrial, where the highest listed speed is 10Mbps. It is not fair for my local ISP to compete against entities that cannot possibly serve the same address.
- ezfe 4y agoYou can dispute it if you are unable to get satellite service, or filter it appropriately to only include landline service.
- voakbasda 4y agoApparently that means challenging each individual provider, and you must have tried to sign up with them and failed for them to take you seriously? Sorry, FCC, this map is less than worthless.
- axus 4y agoPeople without broadband will put in a lot of effort to find service. Before there was no way to challenge the local providers, now there is.
- meragrin 4y agoWhat prevents you putting a dish up on a pole/post to get a signal?
- wil421 4y agoI would have to go 100 feet up just to get out of tree cover. My backyard has a stream that created a valley on either side. To get past the trees at the top of the little valley I’d have to go another 100 feet. If the coverage area was a 360 degree circle around my house I’d have less than 90 degrees of clear sky. If the leaves are on the trees it less than that.
- ttt333 4y agoNot related, but your place sounds beautiful
- SigmundA 4y agoThat's like saying it's bullshit because you have to put up a pole or dig a trench to get a wire from the road to your house to get fiber. Or that solar irradiance maps are bullshit because you have trees. The provider gets the service to your property, its not their issue you have to modify your property to get it to your house and your equipment. Cut some trees down and or put the receiver up higher if you want to get the service currently delivered to the treetops on your property.
- pirate787 4y agoSatellite doesn't deliver to wooded property, that's not a realistic form of broadband access and shouldn't be counted in the coverage statistics. We deliver electricity to every household in America but somehow the corrupt land-line providers and their FCC apologists can't deliver terrestrial broadband on top of the same infrastructure.
- SigmundA 4y agoSolar doesn't deliver to a wooded property either, doesn't mean the solar maps are bullshit. You can cut trees down if you want satellite or solar, this is not impossible to do. You can dig a trench to run fiber from the road, but might be difficult if the ground has large boulders in it, you can run fiber on poles if you cut trees down to make room.
- voakbasda 4y agoA solar map that marks areas with dense forest as having the same generation capacity as areas with open grasslands? Yeah, I would call that bullshit too.
- SigmundA 4y agoWell guess I can't buy a empty lot in a forested area and use an irradiance map to calculate how much solar capacity I would have with my plans, nor can I lookup my Starlink coverage with the FCC map because according to you that would be bullshit due to the trees that I plan on clearing...
- Karunamon 4y agoI would go so far as to say that most satellite service (with the exception of Starlink; which doesn't help in your case sadly) should not be considered regular broadband internet for regulatory purposes owing to its extreme latency and bandwidth restrictions.
- sidewndr46 4y agoMy understanding is at the federal level, OTARD allows you to install any sort of pylon or tower you need to get a clear view of the sky. You would need FCC / FAA approval as well, but if the structure is under 195 feet tall there is no formal process for that.