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Regional ISP markets are usually a monopoly or duopoly. If you're on comcast, its unlikely there is another high speed option out there for you (or if there is,

Regional ISP markets are usually a monopoly or duopoly. If you're on comcast, its unlikely there is another high speed option out there for you (or if there is, the option is no better than comcast).

doubled112 3y ago
Canada too. Almost every independent ISP is just a reseller anyway.
phkahler 3y ago
Starlink is everywhere Comcast is. It's not the highest speed, but it apparently pretty good.
- jcrawfordor 3y ago
  A lot of Comcast customers in this audience are going to be on 500Mbps or Gbps plans. Starlink just can't meaningfully compete with these speeds. Most people in US cities will have two options, cable and either bonded VDSL2 or fiber from the telco. Both will be faster and usually cheaper than Starlink. The main competitor in most cases, after the cable company and the telephone company, is LTE. Also faster and cheaper than Starlink in a suburban area, but in dense areas the speeds really suffer. I was on LTE home internet for a good while and enjoyed 100+ Mbps at night but only 20 during the day, due to living too close to downtown. Only $45/mo though!
  - simfree 3y ago
    Comcast/Xfinity is pushing Docsis 3.1 mid-split upgrades out with plans up to 2Gbps download and 200Mbps upload. Competing with this using satellite or 5G Cellular is going to be difficult, both need more spectrum and an order of magnitude more hardware (cell towers or satellites) to reach those kinds of speeds.
smcin 3y ago
..."in the US". That's a political issue, not a technological issue. And if you want to inquire about the root-cause: "Comcast does so much lobbying that it says disclosing it all is too hard" https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2019/05/comcast-does-so-much-lobbying-that-it-says-disclosing-it-all-is-too-hard/ https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2019/05/comcast-does-so-...
two_in_one 3y ago
That was a joke: "Verizon made even Comcast look good". Not sure if it's still around.

Regional ISP markets are usually a monopoly or duopoly. If you're on comcast, its unlikely there is another high speed option out there for you (or if there is, the option is no better than comcast).

doubled112 3y ago

Canada too. Almost every independent ISP is just a reseller anyway.

phkahler 3y ago

Starlink is everywhere Comcast is. It's not the highest speed, but it apparently pretty good.

jcrawfordor 3y ago
A lot of Comcast customers in this audience are going to be on 500Mbps or Gbps plans. Starlink just can't meaningfully compete with these speeds. Most people in US cities will have two options, cable and either bonded VDSL2 or fiber from the telco. Both will be faster and usually cheaper than Starlink. The main competitor in most cases, after the cable company and the telephone company, is LTE. Also faster and cheaper than Starlink in a suburban area, but in dense areas the speeds really suffer. I was on LTE home internet for a good while and enjoyed 100+ Mbps at night but only 20 during the day, due to living too close to downtown. Only $45/mo though!
- simfree 3y ago
  Comcast/Xfinity is pushing Docsis 3.1 mid-split upgrades out with plans up to 2Gbps download and 200Mbps upload. Competing with this using satellite or 5G Cellular is going to be difficult, both need more spectrum and an order of magnitude more hardware (cell towers or satellites) to reach those kinds of speeds.

smcin 3y ago

..."in the US". That's a political issue, not a technological issue. And if you want to inquire about the root-cause: "Comcast does so much lobbying that it says disclosing it all is too hard" https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2019/05/comcast-does-so-much-lobbying-that-it-says-disclosing-it-all-is-too-hard/ https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2019/05/comcast-does-so-...

two_in_one 3y ago

That was a joke: "Verizon made even Comcast look good". Not sure if it's still around.