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Re:Starlink review, four months in by dboreham on Friday July 23, 2021 @12:46AM (#27927307)
Southwest Montana here: your situation sounds much worse than ours. I did have to build my own Wisp to get service to my home but in town there is decent HFC and fiber loop if you can afford it. I'm curious if you know for sure that you have regional backhaul capacity limits. I ask because I hear stories from local people here, including folks who should be better informed because they work in city planning, about limited connectivity. Their picture of the connectivity situation is wildly innacurate, in part because providers don't disclose the details of their installed plant.
Re:Starlink review, four months in by fastaguy88 on Friday July 23, 2021 @12:39PM (#27932688)
My understanding is that the local telco (centurylink) would just as soon not be here. It certainly seems unwilling to make the investment necessary to provide more connectivity. Some smaller communities have limited fiber (Babb, St Mary) but there is none in East Glacier and Browning.
Re:Starlink review, four months in by dboreham on Sunday July 25, 2021 @11:28AM (#27949851)
I see. So those towns are still microwave-fed? Around here I don't think we have any towns left that are microwave-fed. Gardiner had backhaul fiber installed a few years back. That was the last connectivity hole I'm aware of in this area.