> the biggest you can get for geosynchronous might be 20GB a month no matter how much you want to pay.
Couldn’t you pay for more than one account and combine them?
Or are you saying the cap for an entire satellite is 20GB per month?
That's completely false. Several providers have over 100GB/mo plans.
Latency is completely true. Can’t be otherwise because speed of light is a thing.
The latency part is true, but the cap is not:
https://www.satelliteinternet.com/resources/unlimited-satell...
We can argue about whether latency matters for most people, but it's not going to go anywhere.
Re:Starlink Is a Big Deal
by DangitBobby on Thursday January 30, 2020 @02:36AM
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Whew $150/mo for 100 GB of data
That actually doesn’t seem that bad, especially for the middle of nowhere.
Really anything is better than what’s currently available in the rural US. Having grown up there I’m kind of mad that we give so much spectrum to cell companies who block people from setting up terrestrial radio networks in places like this.