Starlink

[JethroB]

I got the email today that my StarLink wait is over. Yea! It was interesting that the email said to confirm today within my StarLink account to expedite processing & shipping (and the immediate $493 CC charge) or to cancel for a $99 refund, otherwise my order would automatically be processed in 3 days.

 

[ponytug]

@John_Mc Just to be clear, we don't have fiber, nor acccess to it. AT&T offered us "business class" fiber for $584/mo for 50Mbit, two year minimum contract. That was a little pricey for us... They have consistently refused to quote a price for running residential fiber out here, even after I pointed out that the business offer effectively priced the running of the fiber at about $10k.

@JethroB Well, that is a relief to know that the order will automatically go through if nothing is done.

All the best,

Peter

 

[grsthegreat]

I ended up signing up for starlink, sending a deposit, 2 months ago, as my wireless internet sucked (between 0.7 - 2.0 mbps speeds and constant clocking). Starlink says my area is loaded, probibly wont get starlink until 2023 or later.

Ziply fiber has been promising fiber for months……i dont know if they will ever bring it out.

i just dont trust musk. I know hell get everyone signed up then bump price like crazy. Its how he works. Ziply fiber offers unbelievable speeds real cheap on fiber, but i just dont know if they will ever hook us up. Everytime you call them it “about a month out”……for the last year.

i called my wireless provider yesterday to complain about crappy service, and they told me they just upgraded their equipment and offered me a new antenna and upgrade for free as weve been with them for 10 years. I am now gitting constant 10.0 - 14.0 mbpd down and 3.5 up.
i can actually now stream on 2 HD tvs at same time and no clocking. Its been years.

 

[kcflhrc]

I install Fiber for a living and trust me, there is no such thing as cheap fiber. We have all buried fiber, we don't do any aerial. Yet. In rural area's it is just cost prohibitive to get your money back in a decent amount of time. I have approximately 20 subdivisions I work in constantly. We sell our 1GB with free gateway and free installation for $65 a month all in. No contract. You can't beat that price. But the return on your money is very quick when you have a concentration of 100 homes within a 1/2 mile radius. Lots of local rural COOP's doing fiber but the up front cost for the consumer is pretty pricey. It costs a lot of money to put fiber in the ground and do the build out. So in rural areas it just doesn't make sense to plow fiber to homes 1/2 mile or further apart unless you can pass that along to the consumer and most folks wont pay for it. But they will ***** about it, that's for sure.

 

[jk96]

I install Fiber for a living and trust me, there is no such thing as cheap fiber. We have all buried fiber, we don't do any aerial. Yet. In rural area's it is just cost prohibitive to get your money back in a decent amount of time. I have approximately 20 subdivisions I work in constantly. We sell our 1GB with free gateway and free installation for $65 a month all in. No contract. You can't beat that price. But the return on your money is very quick when you have a concentration of 100 homes within a 1/2 mile radius. Lots of local rural COOP's doing fiber but the up front cost for the consumer is pretty pricey. It costs a lot of money to put fiber in the ground and do the build out. So in rural areas it just doesn't make sense to plow fiber to homes 1/2 mile or further apart unless you can pass that along to the consumer and most folks wont pay for it. But they will ***** about it, that's for sure.

When we built our home fiber was already at the road but our house was a full mile off the hwy. When I inquired about getting it ran to the house our coop told us their cost to run the line back to us was around $35,000-$38,000. Luckily a few years later we had a radiologist build about 3/4 mile back and needed high speed to work from home. He ended up paying to run the line back.

 

[grsthegreat]

when the govt is subsidizing alot of the cost, they can get fiber out to a hub in rural areas and finish runs to houses over old copper phone wire. they are doing that out my way. you dont get the full benefits of solid fiber, but its alot better, and cheaper, than cable.

 

[LouNY]

Our copper was buried back in the 60's it is pure D garbage now, just about worthless even for voice and data forget it.

 

[grsthegreat]

ours is 2000's burial. that would make a big difference

 

[kcflhrc]

when the govt is subsidizing alot of the cost, they can get fiber out to a hub in rural areas and finish runs to houses over old copper phone wire. they are doing that out my way. you dont get the full benefits of solid fiber, but its alot better, and cheaper, than cable.

We do that here. They call it fiber to the node. Problem is the last mile or whatever the distance is still on old phone cable and speeds are very limited. And just so everyone knows, when the government subsidizes this, they tell us where to put the nodes and what addresses to serve. You never back feed from these devices in the serving cable. So if the cables runs for example North to south you would never serve a customer from the south node back to the north even though it may be closer. Back when this started it was called the Connect America Fund, so we call our devices CAF's. Speeds were mandated at a minimum of 10 meg, not sure what it is now. Thankfully all I have to do is Fiber to the home because no one else wants to do it. Not sure why. So much easier and not all the issues you can have with copper cable.

 

[JasperFrank]

Great... so this topic made me lookup how secure we are in future support for DSL in my area. Which from the articles I'm reading, is tenuous in the near future......