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I couldn't even imagine. My family upgraded from dialup to satellite around 2006 as a luxury, and the latency was basically unworkable for anything remotely realtime.

Even for a reasonably decent plan, the caps were also ridiculous as well. I could realistically watch maybe 45 minutes of YouTube per month.

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I have a rural house with satellite internet. I work from there several weeks a year to stretch my time away from the hell that is the Bay Area. It works fine as long as all I need is access to the git server, despite the fact that I usually blow through the bandwidth soft cap within a few days at most. I usually take at least two trips into town (7 miles each way, pop. 700) to get cell service for conference calls over the course of a week.

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