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Re:SpaceX no longer taking losses to produce Starlink satell... by politician on Wednesday September 13, 2023 @02:03PM (#37499642)
I'd buy service to put it on my rooftop to both put economic pressure on the local ISP duopoly in the form of an unambiguous publicly visible third alternative and, also, as a backup.
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Re:SpaceX no longer taking losses to produce Starlink satell... by jtriangle on Wednesday September 13, 2023 @03:08PM (#37500412)
I know of a couple places that are using starlink as failover because they're only serviced by a single ISP. Makes sense really, and cheaper than 4/5g failover.
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Re:SpaceX no longer taking losses to produce Starlink satell... by SEJeff on Wednesday September 13, 2023 @03:10PM (#37500445)
This is part of why I bought a Starlink dish and put it on the roof of the house I'm doing a full rehab on before the siding was installed. It will give me dual homed internet for when the crap local ISP has issues and a hedge against a single ISP with spotty service.

Ironically, in doing this, I have managed to meet and convince a project manager of a new ISP to add our neighborhood to the list to places to pull fiber to, but it will likely be about a year out.

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