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I've been "owned" by three different cable companies in the last 3 years. In the same house. The worst part is, the big fish who "owns" me now hasn't bothered to upgrade fish #2's infrastructure to match their own. So I now have the worst of both worlds - famously crappy support, with poor selection. Thank Buddha for Satellite.

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I wonder how much of this buyout-without-investment behavior is just a method that big providers use to punish users for "cable cutting."

It's a sad state of affairs when anybody is happy with satellite internet. So much expense for such an awful service in all respects.

As a (very) rural satellite consumer, it's only awful in most respects, not all. With the latest incarnation of satellite, the speed isn't terrible. Really, it's not.

If the weather isn't bad, and it's not spring/fall sunspot season, and you only use 15 gigs. But at least it's overpriced.

And if you don't have hills or trees between you and the southern sky, and you don't have any interest in anything latency-dependent, like gaming or VPN/remote desktop.

Oh, and uploading anything ever. Does satellite still use dial-up lines for all upstream communication?

Uploading isn't terrible anymore. No dial-up lines. Not super fast, by any stretch, but it's not an the abomination it used to be.

What kills me, personally, is that I have a fiber line running between two of the major metros in my state underground at the front of my property, and no feasible way to tie into it. Am currently taking suggestions on how to do that.

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