Basic physics says satellites using Ku-band or whatever they use can't compete with fibre.

Satellite internet has its uses like for ships at sea.

all you can eat latency and an oversaturated network on devices with a limited lifespan.. what else could you ask for!

This country is so cooked

Starlink has much better latency than most satellites, but still 10 to 50 times as much as fiber.

Remember when our government spent billions of our taxes on getting high speed internet out to as many Americans as possible? Remember how literally nothing happened and they just shrugged when we asked where the money went?

This was during the Obama years too if memory serves correctly.

It doesn't matter what they decide to do. The money will magically vanish and we will all get left holding the bag once more.

I say this as someone who actively pays for starlink out of necessity.

Fuck you, no. Fiber is much better for everyone. Eat shit muskrat.

While you’re correct and I agree, they REALLY shouldn’t do whatever Elon wants.

I’m a starlink customer and think it’s one of the best advancements in the past decade as it provides real access to rural addresses. The side effects of this is nearly immeasurable.

Spacex needs to STFU about this though. Fiber should continue to be deployed where possible.

Oh absolutely. He can pull himself up by his velcro straps and make his business work without government subsidies for once in his life.

That being said I don't have any faith in our government to actually improve anything for general americans when it comes to internet access. Even if the federal government somehow did everything right the states would find a way to regulate and fuck it up.

Business owned by greedy manbaby says to give money to business also owned by greedy manbaby. Hmmm....

katy says spacex should go fuck themselves and go bankrupt

Or rural and remote areas. I think it would be a ton of fun to go backpacking with a foldable solar panel and an antenna.

Clinton era Telecommunications Act of 1996 was where it all started.

Thanks to corporations for pocketing the money, and the Republicans for blocking Democrats from providing consequences.

Fiber should be deployed to rural addresses like yours (and should've been a long time ago). Instead, that money was funneled to the likes of Time Warner and Comcast who never even followed through on their part of the deal. Now, SpaceX is getting funneled the cash.

I'm super thankful that WA State supports and gives assistance to counties building out public LUDs for fiber access, many paying attention to rural communities first. I escaped Comcast two years ago because of it.

Gee, I wonder why they would do that.

Just for reference, I get about 45-50 ping playing Marvel Rivals on Starlink.

ha yeah... not having to make a 340 mile round trip instead of the hundreds of feet to the nearest router will do that

You know I'm starting to suspect that maybe corporations don't have our best interests in mind....

The tech behind starlink is good. LEO satellites play a purpose. Upsides are they have less latency than GEO satellites. Speeds are the same though.

Downside is you have to deploy them evenly as a constellation or else you get service inturruption. Which means if you look at any population map 90% of your constellation is going to be underutilized, and the other 10% is going to be full.

The real target audience should be mobile broadband. Airplanes, ships, RVs, cars, phones, etc.

But what do you do in the meantime? Fill in the unutilized constillation with rural residential. You can't compete with fiber tech, so you sue the govt for free money.