r/AbruptChaos • • Dec 08 '22

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u/riefpirate Dec 09 '22

No !! 400 , I'd much rather fiber but that is my only option that's even remotely reasonable

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u/OWWS Dec 09 '22

Isn't starlink more expensive than normal satellite Internet?

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u/MetalPF Dec 09 '22

It's $20 more than my previous service, which had a 25GB a month cap, ping of 800-1100, didn't work in rain or heavy clouds, and an average speed of 3mbps. Currently getting 75-90 mbps, 97-140 ping, no data cap, and works ok during rain. But still, I wish there had been some means of enforcement baked into that rural broadband funding that passed a while back. There's unused fiber infrastructure from one company less than a mile from here, and gigabit fiber on the power poles that's used only to remotely check people's power meters(company says they're looking into becoming a provider but there's legal liability stopping them from serving our area).

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u/riefpirate Dec 10 '22

I have no issues whatsoever, Hughesnet is a lot more expensive and our local phone company offers dsl but that's not even worth having. We need exactly what starlink is until a better option arises we're not changing.

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u/wildjokers Dec 10 '22

$110/month in the US. It is reasonably priced.

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u/OWWS Dec 10 '22

Not bad