Huh? People used satellites as an excuse to not wire rural America for electricity?
Starlink might not be as fast as fiber, but it's more than good enough.
Starlink might not be as fast as fiber, but it's more than good enough.
Users running up against oversubscription - this is a when not if condition. The capacity limits inherent to satellite tech are what they are.
ref: https://kagi.com/search?q=starlink+oversubscribed&dr=4&r=us&...
Between now and then, users' routine downloads run up against caps (eg:steam game packs).
> I don't see how running internet over wires to rural housing could ever be seen as a good expenditure of money.
In pure ROI, it's the same as running electrical service to rural areas. But still very important in general
Obviously that’s what I meant. And I didn’t mean people used the excuse of “we shouldn’t be pulling cable to all these houses when X is good enough”.
There were endless excuses to not electrify rural America including “they don’t need it”. It was eventually solved through co-ops.
That’s exactly how most rural areas are trying to solve fiber, but of course they get to fight the combination of folks like you that think “satellite is good enough” (it isn’t), and legacy ISPs suing them to slow or stop deployment.