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You can get always get starlink if the fiber/cable is bad.
by jhawk28 2y ago
You can get always get starlink if the fiber/cable is bad.
- KennyBlanken 2y agoSure, if you don't mind regular drops while you're handed off between satellites, and many areas being oversubscribed so badly that people are getting performance worse than DSL.
- al_borland 2y agoI only know one person with Starlink, but they seem happy with it. With the previous local provider they paid for 30Mbps, but were getting 15. With Starlink it’s around 230Mbps. While that’s slower than my cable service in the city, for him, it’s a significant improvement and a big quality of life upgrade.
- ghaff 2y agoMy brother had it for a while in fairly rural Maine. Eventually got fiber but the Starlink was pretty good if not 100%. I used Starlink on an Atlantic crossing a few months back and it was pretty solid. It's not perfect--or probably as good as my Comcast is these days--but it's pretty good in my experience. But then I'm old enough to remember both pre-broadband and really unreliable broadband.
- inemesitaffia 2y agoStop living in the past. All that is fixed. No one's getting worse than DSL performance in the US especially not with regards to speeds