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Re:Starlink internet is going from rural savior to unreliabl... by noirscape on Monday April 03, 2023 @05:18AM (#35420627)
Starlink is also having a bad side-effect in other areas - apparently the frequencies on which it communicates muck up weather prediction technology[0]. I'm sure it works great if you're rural/have literally no other means but if you have the infrastructure for it, don't use Starlink.

[0]: https://nltimes.nl/2023/01/27/dutch-meteorologists-say-musks...

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Re:Starlink internet is going from rural savior to unreliabl... by ejb999 on Monday April 03, 2023 @06:37AM (#35421237)
it was never really intended for people that already had better options. Had it for a while and it was life changing for me coming from a 3MB DSL internet - but dropped it as soon as fiber found its way to my little town.
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Re:Starlink internet is going from rural savior to unreliabl... by ghaff on Monday April 03, 2023 @09:07AM (#35422859)
Notwithstanding the complaints of the OP, Starlink is still a gamechanger in many less urban areas. The alternatives are often not tenable for remote work or even, really, for many things that a lot of people consider near-necessities.

You don't even need to be in the middle of a wilderness area. My brother has a house 10 minutes outside of a smallish Maine city. And his only Starlink options were a 1Mbps down DSL and a very data-capped cellular hotspot.

But a good wired connection is almost always going to be better.

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