I love my Starlink. It sits on the roof of my truck and is a backup ISP when I’m home and a nice way to stay connected when we go camping. 10/10 I recommend to everyone
The thing Starlink is replacing is not gigabit, it’s rural DSL providers who charge an arm and a leg for 20Mbps. The gigabit thing is just pie in the sky idealism while Starlink you can sign up for today.
I don't think that "multibillionaire gets big chunk of the money intended for building durable infrastructure due to being friends with/funding the president, resulting to no infrastructure being actually built" is shocking (anymore) but it was still worth watching.
Last I heard, plenty of non-satellite internet providers have also taken billions from those programs, then pretty much ignored the associated obligations.
And it's not a "Trump" issue, either. The rot also thrived under Biden.
Wasn’t Kamala Harris part of a big push to provide better internet to rural American? I thought I remembered reading $25B in federal funding with essentially 0 marginal positive outcome
Over the last 30 years there have been plenty of attempts if you will to build out fiber. Some did lay fiber, others seem to have not.
The Biden bill did get my parents fiber in rural Wisconsin because the local ISP actually wanted to deliver Internet.
I think the government was hoping that raising and holding providers accountable with the bandwidth tests would have solved that but enforcement is one place this is falling down.
https://wikipedia.org/wiki/Golden_Dome_(missile_defense_syst...
All you need to know about Starlink and why it's getting a free pass.
Oh Rocket Lab, a CV thrown away in vain! Please answer my application, please give me a sign!
I love my Starlink. It sits on the roof of my truck and is a backup ISP when I’m home and a nice way to stay connected when we go camping. 10/10 I recommend to everyone
That’s nice, but how is this at all relevant to the linked video?
Especially as you said you use it as a backup ISP…
I knew it would be this channel. They always have these titles
See also: "FCC abolishes gigabit speed goal, suggesting it is unfair to slower technologies" https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49373361
The thing Starlink is replacing is not gigabit, it’s rural DSL providers who charge an arm and a leg for 20Mbps. The gigabit thing is just pie in the sky idealism while Starlink you can sign up for today.
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I don't think that "multibillionaire gets big chunk of the money intended for building durable infrastructure due to being friends with/funding the president, resulting to no infrastructure being actually built" is shocking (anymore) but it was still worth watching.
Last I heard, plenty of non-satellite internet providers have also taken billions from those programs, then pretty much ignored the associated obligations.
And it's not a "Trump" issue, either. The rot also thrived under Biden.
Wasn’t Kamala Harris part of a big push to provide better internet to rural American? I thought I remembered reading $25B in federal funding with essentially 0 marginal positive outcome
That pattern extends back to the Clinton administration.
Over the last 30 years there have been plenty of attempts if you will to build out fiber. Some did lay fiber, others seem to have not.
The Biden bill did get my parents fiber in rural Wisconsin because the local ISP actually wanted to deliver Internet.
I think the government was hoping that raising and holding providers accountable with the bandwidth tests would have solved that but enforcement is one place this is falling down.