Dang, I was hoping there was a competitor. I’m boycotting Musk companies as best I can
Yeah, sadly SpaceX and Tesla are both very promising companies primarily held back by Elon Musk.
SpaceX sure but Tesla has been in decline for so long that I wouldn’t be surprised if by the end of the decade it’s either irrelevant or sold off / taken from Musk.
I invite you to join me in rural Australia, and choose from the many options available. /s
good hope it stays broken forever
Thank you so much ! /s Come and join me where the options are many and the price is so cheap. /s /s
If you’d like to experience what it’s like to access the internet sans Starlink, perhaps you could just throttle your modem to 8 or even 10 Mbps. Yes? No? Then consider how lucky you are, and have some empathy for those of us who have little or no alternative.
Your options are limited not by random angry dude on the Internet, but by deliberate and calculated lack of development conspired between legislators and telecoms. Starlink will hit the limits imposed by physics and geometry, and then will get worse and worse the more people sign up.
push and advocate for municipal and community owned broadband
“I know millions of people use their service because it’s the only real option they have, but because it’s associated with this one guy I don’t like, they can all eat a dick!”
*one guy who is ruining the planet and purposely pushing laws that eradicate queer and trans people
Them: “We need a strong central government to protect everyone!”
Me: “Don’t do that! If bad people get control there’s gonna be trouble!”
Them: “You just hate people!” votes for strong government
Them when that strong government is then taken over by bad people: 😯
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This makes me think that the Starlink system is very poorly designed. I know there are hundreds of satellites, and a large number of base stations.
Even if a large chunk of the satellites were taken out and a few base stations failed, shouldn’t the system keep working, just over a different path?
This sounds very much not like a hardware failure, but more like somebody fucked up.
Did you even read the article? It clearly states a core SOFTWARE component. Not hardware.
I’ll upvote anything bad happening to musk.
Oh, so that’s why my internet went out for 4 hours yesterday. RIP.
GOOD
Got a nice fibre-optic connection, have you? Try throttling that to <10Mbps and you might understand what some people have to deal with. DSL at 10Mbps from an evil corporation, or 150Mbps from an evil corporation, hmmmmm, what a choice.
It’s easy to shit on the owner, but have some sympathy for folk who don’t have a reasonable alternative.
Hear hear!
Everyone is like “Move out of the city, live a life closer to nature” but also “If you use the only service that truly enables that you suck!”
I’ll take what I can get until something as good or better comes along.
Verizon is finally laying fiber optic in western maryland. I can’t wait to ditch Starlink and save ~$100 a month in the process.
HugesNet has low throughput but it’s pretty reliable. I had high hopes for Starlink but it seems to be a dud.
I’m sorry, but not even having a Musk backed product as my only alternative could get me to use HugesNet’s antifunctional service. Literally dialup is better.
That’s what I hear, but my experience is different
My coworkers mom paid $200 a month with a 20GB datacap for HughesNet and couldn’t even stream Netflix or Youtube. Their service is completely useless in 2025.
