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After years of being ****ed by ISP
- Thread starter C ountry
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Do they actually provide those speeds?
When I download media on AT&T DSL i get 350-370 kiloBits/sec... which equates to ~45kbps. However when I run speedtest.net it shows ~2.1Mbps down and 0.3Mbps up.
Costs $50/mo for the first 150GB and $10 for each 50GB block after that.
When I download media on AT&T DSL i get 350-370 kiloBits/sec... which equates to ~45kbps. However when I run speedtest.net it shows ~2.1Mbps down and 0.3Mbps up.
Costs $50/mo for the first 150GB and $10 for each 50GB block after that.
3 MBPS is totally, totally CRAP.... For almost $85 bucks!!!! WOW
Haven't got Starlink yet but did the deposit. Sowega..... it's what we're stuck with until Starlink arrives. Sowega is actually the only game in town. They just built deer feeder sheds this summer to put some new switches in. That took them from 900 something lag down to under 100 and to 4.2 mbs
I gave them my money today. If I can get decent internet out in the country, I see zero disadvantage to living out in the sticks. That's been the only hiccup.
Looking forward to hearing your review. We currently have Xfinity, and while expensive, we get 120-150 mb. We'll be looking into Starlink when we build our house in Ball Ground.
Really lookin forward to hearing this review further as well.
I have DSL out in the total sticks of Ellijay (no cell signal either). My ETC DSL runs $50 a month or so, but a speed test shows no better than 1 down, .25 up. (I am at the very end of a 2 mile dirt road).
That bandwidth will hardly stream a single show, with buffering.
It would be worth the 99 a month if I could get some real bandwidth.
I have DSL out in the total sticks of Ellijay (no cell signal either). My ETC DSL runs $50 a month or so, but a speed test shows no better than 1 down, .25 up. (I am at the very end of a 2 mile dirt road).
That bandwidth will hardly stream a single show, with buffering.
It would be worth the 99 a month if I could get some real bandwidth.
Low Earth Orbit satellite, like Starlink, can be a big, big thing, if they get a foothold. Speeds on par with cable/fiber. Much lower latency, cause lower orbit. Less affected by weather.
Getting a lot of funding by government agencies. Having reliable, fast internet in out of the way areas can be a hugely powerful tool(bases, drones, etc).
It's expensive now, cause of all the infrastructure that needs funding, but the governement is giving a big subsidy to make it popular enough that it becomes profitable. Gov won't have to fund phone lines in rural areas anymore, and can use satellite tech for their purposes in other areas, stuff like that.
