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@Dashrender said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
@scottalanmiller said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
@Dashrender said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
@scottalanmiller said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
@Dashrender said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
@scottalanmiller said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
New slate of Starlink satellites launching.
https://www.space.com/spacex-starlink-17-internet-satellites-launch-webcast
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your area already sold out?
It's never been available. It's only just barely gotten to the northern US. We're quite some way from our rural areas being allowed, let alone urban areas.
Interesting - I looked at it last week and it was going to let me sign up.
You are significantly farther north than me, and far more rural. Dallas is the fourth largest metro in the US and rather far south. So we will be nearly the last area of the US to get the option to look at it.
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My old man is apparently on the list to test up here in NY. He wants to keep Spectrum and test with Starlink at the same time.
But he's only got the equipment from Spectrum which for sure won't support dual ISPs
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@DustinB3403 said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
My old man is apparently on the list to test up here in NY. He wants to keep Spectrum and test with Starlink at the same time.
But he's only got the equipment from Spectrum which for sure won't support dual ISPs
I can’t imagine any consumer ISP would provide dual ISP support... that’s totally on you to provide, you the user.
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@Dashrender said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
@DustinB3403 said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
My old man is apparently on the list to test up here in NY. He wants to keep Spectrum and test with Starlink at the same time.
But he's only got the equipment from Spectrum which for sure won't support dual ISPs
I can’t imagine any consumer ISP would provide dual ISP support... that’s totally on you to provide, you the user.
Yeah, I asked him to just look at what he has from Spectrum and he said "do the research for me".... ffs man you aren't 80 you're in your 50's take a picture and send it to me at least...
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Lol I would expect nothing less
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The price versus promised speed didn’t seem worth it to me compared to my cable option...
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@Dashrender said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
The price versus promised speed didn’t seem worth it to me compared to my cable option...
For people with options, it generally is not. But there are large parts of the US where there are not good options.
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Yeah the true value of Starlink isn't for the parts of the country that have services like Spectrum, but for places that are stuck with Dial-up or DSL only options.
Or the locations that have the option to get internet from the Comcast (etc) who say that customers have an option, buy internet from us or don't have internet.
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@Dashrender said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
The price versus promised speed didn’t seem worth it to me compared to my cable option...
300Mb/s for $99? Hard to imagine any cable really competing. Maybe Optimum in NYC.
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@JaredBusch said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
@Dashrender said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
The price versus promised speed didn’t seem worth it to me compared to my cable option...
For people with options, it generally is not. But there are large parts of the US where there are not good options.
Yes I realize that.
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@scottalanmiller said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
@Dashrender said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
The price versus promised speed didn’t seem worth it to me compared to my cable option...
300Mb/s for $99? Hard to imagine any cable really competing. Maybe Optimum in NYC.
Pretty sure it wasn’t that high for me... if memory serves it was 100/20
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The big value is when the datacenters go into orbit and you don't have the up/down latency to get data. Once they are streaming straight from the satellites, it's going to be a game changer. It's when the Akamiis and CloudFlares and AWS of the worst are running compute and storage power in orbit that it's going to be amazing. High priority for us is getting our PBXs there.
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@Dashrender said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
@scottalanmiller said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
@Dashrender said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
The price versus promised speed didn’t seem worth it to me compared to my cable option...
300Mb/s for $99? Hard to imagine any cable really competing. Maybe Optimum in NYC.
Pretty sure it wasn’t that high for me... if memory serves it was 100/20
Um, yeah, for the moment. That goes up every few weeks.
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@scottalanmiller said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
@Dashrender said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
The price versus promised speed didn’t seem worth it to me compared to my cable option...
300Mb/s for $99? Hard to imagine any cable really competing. Maybe Optimum in NYC.
Out of touch much?
WOW is 500mbps for $59.99 assuming no promotion and no autopay discount.
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@scottalanmiller said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
The big value is when the datacenters go into orbit and you don't have the up/down latency to get data. Once they are streaming straight from the satellites, it's going to be a game changer. It's when the Akamiis and CloudFlares and AWS of the worst are running compute and storage power in orbit that it's going to be amazing. High priority for us is getting our PBXs there.
This is the future I am looking forward to. BUt I have not heard any company planning to actually build one.
The compute capabilities in space are too slow still. I think most systems are just now on Pentium chipsets.
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@JaredBusch said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
@scottalanmiller said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
@Dashrender said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
The price versus promised speed didn’t seem worth it to me compared to my cable option...
300Mb/s for $99? Hard to imagine any cable really competing. Maybe Optimum in NYC.
Out of touch much?
WOW is 500mbps for $59.99 assuming no promotion and no autopay discount.
Not here, the best solution here in Dallas is $90 for 160
Spectrum "sells higher speeds", but they don't come close in practice.
It's a rare market that gets those speeds and those prices AND has it work.
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@JaredBusch said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
@scottalanmiller said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
The big value is when the datacenters go into orbit and you don't have the up/down latency to get data. Once they are streaming straight from the satellites, it's going to be a game changer. It's when the Akamiis and CloudFlares and AWS of the worst are running compute and storage power in orbit that it's going to be amazing. High priority for us is getting our PBXs there.
This is the future I am looking forward to. BUt I have not heard any company planning to actually build one.
The compute capabilities in space are too slow still. I think most systems are just now on Pentium chipsets.
Starlink has been talking about launching the equivalent to AWS pods into orbit to have huge storage and compute capabilities low latency to earth. I think things like Netflix are high on the list to put there as they can stream without hitting the earth.
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@scottalanmiller said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
@JaredBusch said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
@scottalanmiller said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
The big value is when the datacenters go into orbit and you don't have the up/down latency to get data. Once they are streaming straight from the satellites, it's going to be a game changer. It's when the Akamiis and CloudFlares and AWS of the worst are running compute and storage power in orbit that it's going to be amazing. High priority for us is getting our PBXs there.
This is the future I am looking forward to. BUt I have not heard any company planning to actually build one.
The compute capabilities in space are too slow still. I think most systems are just now on Pentium chipsets.
Starlink has been talking about launching the equivalent to AWS pods into orbit to have huge storage and compute capabilities low latency to earth. I think things like Netflix are high on the list to put there as they can stream without hitting the earth.
A good article on why that is not happenign anytime soon.
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@JaredBusch said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
@Dashrender said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
The price versus promised speed didn’t seem worth it to me compared to my cable option...
For people with options, it generally is not. But there are large parts of the US where there are not good options.
This can potentially open the doors to SaaS offerings for SMBs limited to on-prem solutions due to 3rd world level internet access.
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@Obsolesce said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
@JaredBusch said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
@Dashrender said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
The price versus promised speed didn’t seem worth it to me compared to my cable option...
For people with options, it generally is not. But there are large parts of the US where there are not good options.
This can potentially open the doors to SaaS offerings for SMBs limited to on-prem solutions due to 3rd world level internet access.
Yup, it's a game changer in much of the world. Although, honestly, dealing with SMBs in the US they consistently have worse Internet than the third world. The rural US is among the planet's worst Internet locations.
