Broadband policy shift in the US drops fiber priority, could funnel billions to Starlink

[cyberblogger]

Utilized or not, there is a maintenance cost to pay. The entire nation pays.'

Satillites suck. They are slow, cost millions of dollars more each year. Its ridiculous to argue this.

 

[ZedRM]

Satillites suck. They are slow, cost millions of dollars more each year. Its ridiculous to argue this.

First, learn how to spell or use spell-check. Second, Satellite internet is not slow and the latency is respectable. Anyone who says Starlink is slow has never used it.

 

[cyberblogger]

First, learn how to spell or use spell-check. Second, Satellite internet is not slow and the latency is respectable. Anyone who says Starlink is slow has never used it.

I could really care less.
Satellites suck in a lot of ways.
When they break, that's it. Then you out either downing it or spending tremendous amount of money replacing it or going into space repairing it.

As for the speed, Starlink's 260Mb at the most only really beats DSL. Even the outdated doscis cable is much faster. I have 400Mb for the past two decades on CATV.

Rather see 10Gb internet everywhere instead of a few cities.

 

[ZedRM]

I could really care less.
Satellites suck in a lot of ways.

Spoken from the perspective of someone who's never used such an internet connection. I have and it's perfectly usable. So save your jibber-jabber for someone who might believe you.

When they break, that's it. Then you out either downing it or spending tremendous amount of money replacing it or going into space repairing it.

You seem to be failing to understand the Starlink business model. SpaceX KNOWS that the satellites have a finite lifespan. It's a part of the equation. They send them up and when they are warn out, they are deorbited and replaced with newly launched satellites.

As for the speed, Starlink's 260Mb at the most only really beats DSL. Even the outdated doscis cable is much faster. I have 400Mb for the past two decades on CATV.

Ok, name even one single activity you can do on the internet that needs more than 260Mbps. Just one. Go ahead. Me personally, I have 1Gbps fiber and that serves my whole family. Even when we're all on at the same time, we rarely top 350 to 400Mbps. That's only if all of us are streaming 4k video at the same time.

Sooo, let's hear it. Name one thing..

Rather see 10Gb internet everywhere instead of a few cities.

Again what would you need that for? Downloading 200 4k "naughty" video's all at once? Well?

 

[cyberblogger]

Again what would you need that for? Downloading 200 4k "naughty" video's all at once? Well?

several applications I do including running my private vpn, file transfers in the 1-2GB two to three times a day for various programming projects. So uploading becomes important. Other things I would like to host going out, like hi res audio streaming but you have to have bandwidth so it can maintain a sustained transfer rate. Beyond all that, other hosting things I would like to implement with my home studio for virtually renting my gear out instead of shipping back and forth my equipment in and out people's studios and give others opportunity to use it that wouldn't be able to afford renting and shipping the gear back and forth. So there is a lot of things I can do and things that I do would benefit more bandwidth.

 

[ZedRM]

several applications I do including running my private vpn, file transfers in the 1-2GB two to three times a day for various programming projects. So uploading becomes important. Other things I would like to host going out, like hi res audio streaming but you have to have bandwidth so it can maintain a sustained transfer rate. Beyond all that, other hosting things I would like to implement with my home studio for virtually renting my gear out instead of shipping back and forth my equipment in and out people's studios and give others opportunity to use it that wouldn't be able to afford renting and shipping the gear back and forth. So there is a lot of things I can do and things that I do would benefit more bandwidth.

Ok, but none of that is a normal use kind of thing. But you can do all of that on a satellite, just not as fast. It's not something 99% of people are doing or give a thought to for even one second. That's what we're talking about in this article, the 99% part of the populace. You're talking about business and prosumer uses.

So allow me to requalify; Name one thing NORMAL people do that would need more than 240Mbps. Go on..

 

[trieste1s]

I could really care less.
Satellites suck in a lot of ways.
When they break, that's it. Then you out either downing it or spending tremendous amount of money replacing it or going into space repairing it.

As for the speed, Starlink's 260Mb at the most only really beats DSL. Even the outdated doscis cable is much faster. I have 400Mb for the past two decades on CATV.

Rather see 10Gb internet everywhere instead of a few cities.

Fibre outlay is like roads.
If you want fast, stay in the dense cities or the denser suburban strips immediately surrounding every city.

Fundamental economics makes it impossible to build out the network of fibre or roads in sparse suburbia or in rural densities and turn a profit. There's only losses to confront, due to mounting maintenance costs.

What's killing the US in utility provision in cases like this are stupefyingly dumb zoning laws. Not the so-called Agent Orange and Muskrat.

The 6 Zoning Reforms Every Municipality Should Adopt

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www.strongtowns.org

 

[cyberblogger]

Ok, but none of that is a normal use kind of thing. But you can do all of that on a satellite, just not as fast. It's not something 99% of people are doing or give a thought to for even one second. That's what we're talking about in this article, the 99% part of the populace. You're talking about business and prosumer uses.

So allow me to requalify; Name one thing NORMAL people do that would need more than 240Mbps. Go on..

Soho is a big market share. Programming is one prime example of remote work that uses a lot of bandwidth. Private VPNs are becoming a norm since public wifi is not as secure people think and using a private vpn is way more secure and cost effective than using a service that may or may not be compromised.