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Re:I took down my Starlink dish (but haven't cancelled) by pirate787 on Thursday February 03, 2022 @10:26AM (#30193600)
Agree 100%. My community is in the DC metro area and despite our relatively ex-urban setting, the corrupt local and state government has failed us. Subsidies badly misspent and monopoly policies that stifle land-based competition. Probably 25-30% (thousands of households) have no access to true broadband, just unreliable DSL from a bankrupt provider that once put our state representative on payroll. We're all clamoring for Starlink.
Re:I took down my Starlink dish (but haven't cancelled) by reportingsjr on Thursday February 03, 2022 @10:33AM (#30193694)
Starlink won't work well for the sort of sprawling exurbs you live in, fyi. It can't support a very high density of dishes due to RF bandwidth limitations.

Starlink's key markets are fairly spread out rural areas, not infrastructure expensive exurbs and suburbs.

Re:I took down my Starlink dish (but haven't cancelled) by cozzyd on Thursday February 03, 2022 @10:44PM (#30202605)
Exactly, terrestrial wireless (i.e. LTE) is the correct technological solution for anything denser than rural.