Starlink

   / Starlink #201  
I see Starlink has gotten high speed Internet to Hoh reservation up in the peninsula in Washington state. Kind of a game changer for them, to have reliable high speed Internet, children and adults being able to have access to education materials etc.
 
   / Starlink #202  
I see Starlink has gotten high speed Internet to Hoh reservation up in the peninsula in Washington state. Kind of a game changer for them, to have reliable high speed Internet, children and adults being able to have access to education materials etc.
Yes, if Starlink lives up to the hype, it will be transformational. There is however, a bank analyst report suggesting, on the basis of some credible math, that even with 3x oversubscription, a full satellite constellation, and curtailing bandwidth to 100Mbit/s, that there may only be bandwidth for 1.5MM customers in the US. There is so little public data, that I find it hard to discern what is/might be/isn't reality.

All the best,

Peter
 
   / Starlink #203  
I've complained many time here about my abysmal speed on my Dumb S### Line in Mississippi.

download under 7.0 Mbps often 6
upload just over 0.7 Mbps
latency ~20 to 40 ms

This has been for the last 10 years.

Now (knock in wood) about mid Sept 2020 my download speeds jumped to 10-12Mbps :).
But latency and upload stayed the same :(.
This really hurts me because I was trying to run a lot of security cams, and they need about 1 to 2 Mbps @.

I don't know why my download speeds jumped but I'm grateful.
 
   / Starlink #206  
We need fiber.

I install fiber to the home 5 days a week 10 hours a day. It's not coming to Rural America anytime soon if ever. Not profitable in any way shape or form. From my perspective. Everyone wants it until you put a price tag on it and then they run and hide. A single installation can easily run $1000 that's in a Subdivision when the homes are stacked one on top of the other. So right off the bat your ROI is going to take 15 months to break even at $65 a month for gig service. If you don't think it costs that much think again

Fiber drop is between $200 and $500 depending on length
Cost to bury it will be $100 to $500 depending on length
Outside termination housing and ONT another $300
Router another $150
And you still haven't paid to roll the truck and pay my wages yet. Typical single family home is a 2 hour job easily. I'm sure the cost per hour for the tech and truck exceeds $100 an hour

It's not cheap
 
   / Starlink #207  
I'll agree we all need fiber.
Just imagine the cost for copper wire to almost every house from the 40's through the 70's.
I was never sure that breaking up ma Bell was in the consumers best interest.
By the 90's much of the copper was in very poor shape, I ended up dropping my landline phone around 2010 as the down times and unusable times got to be over 50%.
I still miss it and the good phone books.
 
   / Starlink #210  
Ok it's expensive _now_ . But the TVA that brought power to parts of Appalachia was also.
What would be the cost/household in a city like NY, Chicago, Denver, Portland? More?, Less? And couldn't it be a national infrastructure initiative? Put out-of-work citizenery to work earning weekly pay.
 

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