• SpeedLimit55@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    I just checked the price and its $599 for the hardware + $99 deposit + $50 shipping. After that the service costs $120/month. I pay $65/month for fiber at the moment.

    • marsokod@lemmy.world
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      1 year ago

      If you have fiber, it’s unlikely you will benefit from something like Starling. Transfer data wirelessly through a constellation of satellites will have running costs much higher than just having a fibre. That is unless you have to dog a trench or run a fibre on mast for km for just one customer, which is where Starling starts making more sense.

      Starling is for rural customers, mobile customers, and possibly an option to counter monopoly abuse by some Telco companies. But if you are in a city with fibre, then do use the fibre, that’s your better option.

      • redcalcium@lemmy.institute
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        1 year ago

        You know, you can make your perfectly valid argument without the insult. No need to add more toxicity to Lemmy and fediverse at large.

      • karlthemailman@sh.itjust.works
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        1 year ago

        Rude tone apart, this is absolutely true. Nobody thinks satellite Internet is meant to compete with fiber to the door.

                • Flying Squid@lemmy.world
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                  1 year ago

                  If it is a fact, feel free to release an intelligent assessment based on more than a single data point. I’m guessing you’ve said things other people thought were stupid on occasion.

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                    1 year ago

                    Ah, a fellow intellectual, I see.

                    My position is perfectly straightforward: by asserting their belief that their own behaviour of calling people “dumb” with no elaboration was acceptable, that user gave us all implicit permission to speak to them that way without any objection from them, lest they betray a hypocritical stance.

                    I responded by doing just that as a parody to demonstrate that it clearly is rude behaviour. I subjected them to the discomfort of having such rhetoric leveraged against them, a situation they clearly neglected to consider in their hasty self-serving defence. If I had elaborated any further, it would have defeated the purpose of the parody.

                    But in your case, I decided upon an overly verbose self-serious tone, also as a form of parody. Is that assessment sufficiently intelligent for you?

      • Neuromancer
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        1 year ago

        I was in a similar spot. No fiber but I could get dsl.

        The reason I wanted it is I have two houses in Oregon and I could take it with me.

        It’s too expensive for that.

          • limelight79
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            1 year ago

            Move Starlink around? You can. The roam plan costs more and has the lowest priority in traffic, but it does work. We’ve been using it for internet access in our RV all over the US this summer as we work from the road.