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Starlink is everywhere Comcast is. It's not the highest speed, but it apparently pretty good.
by phkahler 3y ago
Starlink is everywhere Comcast is. It's not the highest speed, but it apparently pretty good.
- jcrawfordor 3y agoA 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 agoComcast/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.