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I agree. It's the only option for internet in many places. I'm very happy with my Starlink service. I'd drop it in a heartbeat if there was a better option but for now it fits my needs.
Unless you need low latency and have nothing better around, yeah I can see how Starlink is best for you.
Obviously the second fibre is available. Half the price and better stability. Fuck musk. But currently it's leaps and bounds above competition.
It's basically the Tesla of the ev industry.
First of all I think you meant the Tesla of the internet provider industry. And also, by your definition, even Tesla isn't the Tesla of the EV industry 😅
What do you mean ?
You said starlink was the Tesla of the EV industry. But they aren't part of the EV industry, they are an internet provider.
And many people would argue that Tesla is not leaps and bounds above the competition, but rather falling behind the competition after starting with a huge head start.
It's a figure of speech. Breathe of the wild is the soulsborne of Nintendo. I honestly can't explain it. Yes Tesla was the Pinnacle during the early years of EV. Starlink is the Pinnacle of space internet. I'm sure it will get overtaken. Currently musk has resources that others don't, namely space x
Maybe I coined it wrong. Starlink is the Tesla of the space internet. Is that better
Yeah, that's actually much better. I agree, they are both trailblazers.
Not necessarily trailblazers. Similar to apple. They took products that existed and made them mainstream appeal. That's the difference. Satellite Internet has been around for ages but not easy and user friendly. Same with evs. Been around since 19th century.
Musk made them Kool
Tesla wasn't even that great, they just had more marketing (and installed some charging stations on the west coast usa) than many of the companies they did RnD with at the time
Think the car was pretty Kool too.
Not really, it had a lot of hype about it.
Oh absolutely. But it was flash when other evs weren't. It had all the buttons. Fun doors.
"Tesla of the ev industry"... meaning overpriced shit. Kind of is considering other satellite providers offer far cheaper service but with higher latency.
Not in my neck of the woods. Need to think bigger than USA
all 3 of the other largest intersat providers cover most of the world, Viasat for example cover most everything other than the deep Sahara and the exact borders of Russia
You've clearly never read anything about Starlink and it's implementation. Rural customers are desperate for any alternatives, and Starlink has 100s of LEO satellites vs Viasat's.. 4.
Ya, that's because Viasat has their satellites in a higher orbit, covering more land per sat, and allowing them to use beefier satellites (this is important for reliability, what most of the sat-com users need as you recently saw in Ukraine).
but no, I have in fact read plenty about Starlink, and its implementation, and know full well that this is literally just "bigger number more impressive", most rural customers who needed internet already know about sat-coms.
As for the 1 million (21 million short of projected users, because turns out rural people already know about sat-com, and why switch?), many of those are, and I hate to sound like a rural elitist, people from cities who only recently moved out into the middle of nowhere.
as for the LEO vs. GSO, it is about 400ms extra ping, but unless you are stock trading or playing video games ping doesn't really matter, and you shouldn't do either of them over sat-coms anyway.
Alright, I concede. These are all fair points.
Seems like it's available in Spain south America and qatar