Of course you get downvoted. Because people don’t know. Let me try to help educate y’all.
In many rural areas in the US there is NO (as in zero, nada, zilch) cable, DSL or even mobile/LTE. Nothing. I know because I live in one of those areas. So your internet options are:
Read books and talk to people
A traditional satellite provider like Hughesnet or Viasat, where you’ll have 10 GB daytime MONTHLY quotas, 800ms latency and extremely poor service.
Twiddle your thumbs and call it twidder.
Until Starlink came along I could not work remotely, stream any content or game. Despite being usually 20 MBps down, Hughesnet was so high latency that page loads were usually 10-20 seconds or more. A lot of things that had short timeouts simply didn’t work. So yeah, I self-flaggilate every time I pay the bill but Starlink has allowed us to have a normal internet life.
Yeah thats why i opt for low effort comments because even if you’re right you’re downvoted
A day later and I notice that your low effort comment was downvoted, but the other comment with detail and explanation is 9:1 upvoted. Maybe it’s the low effort part that’s earning you the downvotes and not the underlying opinion.
Lemmy community is garbo.
All you post and all you read is all this community will ever be (apologies to Pink Floyd).
That literally is, it’s called Oneweb. SpaceX even launch their satellites rather amusingly.
You need to correct your post. As has been pointed out, Oneweb is not available for residential use. You simply cannot order it. The best you could do is go in with neighbors and set up community broadband. They don’t publish prices but I read somewhere that you are looking at $1500 per month or more.
As far as I can tell, they don’t offer internet services to end-users. Or, if they do, it’s buried pretty deep in their site (which makes their site a poor design). OTOH, Starlink makes it very easy to see if you’re in an area that can get coverage, and to order service. I live in an area where Starlink would cost 50% more than my only other non-satellite option, and be double or triple the speed at their low end.
rabber@lemmy.ca 5 months ago
No starlink alternative
enbyecho@lemmy.world 5 months ago
Of course you get downvoted. Because people don’t know. Let me try to help educate y’all.
In many rural areas in the US there is NO (as in zero, nada, zilch) cable, DSL or even mobile/LTE. Nothing. I know because I live in one of those areas. So your internet options are:
Until Starlink came along I could not work remotely, stream any content or game. Despite being usually 20 MBps down, Hughesnet was so high latency that page loads were usually 10-20 seconds or more. A lot of things that had short timeouts simply didn’t work. So yeah, I self-flaggilate every time I pay the bill but Starlink has allowed us to have a normal internet life.
rabber@lemmy.ca 5 months ago
Yeah thats why i opt for low effort comments because if you’re right you’re downvoted, thanks for doing the typing cuz I wasn’t going to
rezifon@lemmy.world 5 months ago
A day later and I notice that your low effort comment was downvoted, but the other comment with detail and explanation is 9:1 upvoted. Maybe it’s the low effort part that’s earning you the downvotes and not the underlying opinion.
All you post and all you read is all this community will ever be (apologies to Pink Floyd).
pewgar_seemsimandroid@lemmy.blahaj.zone 5 months ago
yes, not even dial up
enbyecho@lemmy.world 5 months ago
Apparently some still do exist. 56 KBps… woohoo.
echodot@feddit.uk 5 months ago
That literally is, it’s called Oneweb. SpaceX even launch their satellites rather amusingly.
enbyecho@lemmy.world 5 months ago
You need to correct your post. As has been pointed out, Oneweb is not available for residential use. You simply cannot order it. The best you could do is go in with neighbors and set up community broadband. They don’t publish prices but I read somewhere that you are looking at $1500 per month or more.
Bgugi@lemmy.world 5 months ago
Image or am I just deficient?
HelixDab2@lemm.ee 5 months ago
As far as I can tell, they don’t offer internet services to end-users. Or, if they do, it’s buried pretty deep in their site (which makes their site a poor design). OTOH, Starlink makes it very easy to see if you’re in an area that can get coverage, and to order service. I live in an area where Starlink would cost 50% more than my only other non-satellite option, and be double or triple the speed at their low end.
rabber@lemmy.ca 5 months ago
So confidently incorrect, you must have lots of reddit karma lol