Starlink internet is going from rural savior to unreliable luxury

Re:Starlink internet is going from rural savior to unreliabl... by swiftcoder on Monday April 03, 2023 @06:55AM (#35421426)

I'm in a farming village in Spain, all of 2 families living here, 45 minutes drive from the nearest population center, and they rolled out symetrical gigabit fibre last year (and not just to us - to every rural village in the region).

The base 300/300 service is price capped at 38 euros/month as well. I'm paying a few bucks more for higher speed.

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Re:Starlink internet is going from rural savior to unreliabl... by girvo on Monday April 03, 2023 @08:20AM (#35422287)

A 45 minute drive doesn’t even get you out of Brisbane, where I live (and has gigabit down — drives me nuts that our upload is capped at 50mbps. That’s the worst part of our system IMO).

We have a pretty different scale in a lot of ways: Australia is huge and basically empty, density wise.

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