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Large swaths of the US have bunk internet like Earthlink. My rural family in Appalachia already like Musk. I think they'd love to have Starlink if it was a litt
by xeromal 3y ago
Large swaths of the US have bunk internet like Earthlink. My rural family in Appalachia already like Musk. I think they'd love to have Starlink if it was a little more affordable.
- qup 3y agoEarthlink still exists? Wow. When I was a kid, we would steal "ELN" accounts for dial-up and then hop on to AOL via TCP/IP. Edit: we did that so when we got punted we didn't have to go throigh the whole dial-up sequence. Which happened a lot in those days if you were twelve years old.
- Loughla 3y agoWe live in a very rural area. The one time the federal government really came through for me was fiber development grants a few years ago. We went from Wild Blue internet, which was garbage all around, for $120/mo to a full gig fiber connection locked in at $80/mo for life. It cost us $200 to hook it up. More and more rural isp's are getting into fiber with grants.
- HWR_14 3y agoAnd SpaceX was going to get some of that grant money as well. But they messed it up somehow.
- inemesitaffia 3y agoThey very well may still get it
- HWR_14 3y agoThey might get it back. But they had, and lost, the grant already.