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probably not. Any 30 unit building is probably in too urban an area for Starlink to be competitive with fiber.
by adgjlsfhk1 3y ago
probably not. Any 30 unit building is probably in too urban an area for Starlink to be competitive with fiber.
- ultrarunner 3y agoThink ski resorts
- pnpnp 3y agoThat’s not necessarily true! I can think of 3 nearby Rocky Mountain resort towns without great cellular or terrestrial internet.
- HaZeust 3y agoIn fact, I believe Ameristar (or another casino) in Blackhawk CO was thinking about using Starlink
- ravi-delia 3y agoThere's gotta be a point where the cost of running enough fiber drops below a sufficient amount of starlink capacity though. Hard to say where that number is though.
- moyix 3y agoYou'd be surprised. In dense cities like NYC/Brooklyn fiber availability varies from block to block, I assume because adding new infra is so expensive. We recently moved about five blocks away and lost access to fiber :(
- mcpackieh 3y agoCheck out Whittier, Alaska. A port town of 272 people, almost all of whom live in a single building. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whittier,_Alaska#/media/File:Whittier,_Alaska_(2006).jpg https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whittier,_Alaska#/media/File:W... (Another oddity; the only way to drive into that down is through a 2.5 mile tunnel with a single lane shared by trains and cars. You drive on the train tracks.)
- Symbiote 3y agoThey already have far Internet. https://uui-alaska.com/whittier-internet-cable-modem-cable-tv-service-is-required/ https://uui-alaska.com/whittier-internet-cable-modem-cable-t...
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