riptides
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I have not seen Starlink on the main stream advertised yet. ViaSat and HughesNet are advertising in my area.
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I have not seen Starlink on the main stream advertised yet. ViaSat and HughesNet are advertising in my area.
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rekees4300
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No. We wont get any invite emails from Starlink unless selected to do beta testing. When/if that will happen in PA. is unknown at this time. However according to Elon Musk the goal is to achieve complete global coverage in 2021! The light at the end of the tunnel will soon be one helleva fast train for all USA rural folks!
kcflhrc
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3x the speed of DSL? That could be 3 meg
Diggin It
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Does a multi billionaire need money for rural incentives?
ponytug
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The ads are ViaSat or perhaps Hughes, if it is only three times DSL.
Starlink isn't advertising. Given the way Elon Musk runs his other companies, sales and marketing will be nonexistent. He prefers to sell to fans, who then do the sales work. :thumbsup: I am ready to sign up for that job.
Our phone and DSL has been so unreliable lately, made worse by power outages that cause the phone services to fail after a few hours. Fundamentally, our issue is that you can't really sustain even a single zoom/webex call on 600kb of upload bandwidth.
The next couple of batches of Starlink satellites are supposed to arrive on orbit early next week, and then some more in January. Starlink is talking about more beta testing invites late January / early February at lower latitudes.
Fingers crossed!
All the best, Peter
Starlink isn't advertising. Given the way Elon Musk runs his other companies, sales and marketing will be nonexistent. He prefers to sell to fans, who then do the sales work. :thumbsup: I am ready to sign up for that job.
Our phone and DSL has been so unreliable lately, made worse by power outages that cause the phone services to fail after a few hours. Fundamentally, our issue is that you can't really sustain even a single zoom/webex call on 600kb of upload bandwidth.
The next couple of batches of Starlink satellites are supposed to arrive on orbit early next week, and then some more in January. Starlink is talking about more beta testing invites late January / early February at lower latitudes.
Fingers crossed!
All the best, Peter
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rekees4300
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Elon's root mission is to make humans an interplanetary species to preclude inevitable extinction. Starlink is a way to fund a Mar's colony ASAP. We have all our eggs in one basket, all it would take is one large meteorite to cook the eggs.
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rekees4300
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Starlink will receive $886M from FCC over next decade to improve broadband in underserved rural areas across 35 states. This is great news for potential customers who may be concerned about the long term viability of Starlink. :thumbsup:
SpaceX's Starlink to Receive $886 Million From FCC to Improve Rural Broadband | PCMag
https://docs.fcc.gov/public/attachments/DOC-368588A1.pdf
https://www.reddit.com/r/Starlink/comments/k8n3lt/spacex_has_secured_8855m_in_fcc_rural_broadband/
SpaceX's Starlink to Receive $886 Million From FCC to Improve Rural Broadband | PCMag
https://docs.fcc.gov/public/attachments/DOC-368588A1.pdf
https://www.reddit.com/r/Starlink/comments/k8n3lt/spacex_has_secured_8855m_in_fcc_rural_broadband/
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KY made the list. My son is a low low connectivity area.