I'm on NMSurf.com for most of a decade now, after the grant-funded San I
wireless system ground to a halt after the funding went away... before
that I enjoyed a whole year of HughesNet satellight which was painfully
asymmetric and heavily latent. Before that dialup over the most poorly
maintained copper in the world/country/state/county (probably just the
latter). I think I'm paying for the lowest tier of 100Mbps and but I
don't get any better service than I did when I was paying (the same
price or a little more) for 25Mbps and similarly for 10Mbps before that.
The hardest thing I ask of my ISP is one or maybe two simultaneous video
streams (Netflix/Prime/Youtube, ???) and that was something even the
10Mbps (usually) served well enough.
I was pulling signal from 23 miles away Line of Sight from the top of
Big Tesuque for the longest time and it never failed, even in the
harshest snow/rainstorms... a-mazing. They relit the San lldefonso
tower just about 1/2 mile from me and I get (best I can tell) the very
same service, but it must be a lot easier/cheaper for them to provide
such. My downtime on top of the mountain was same or better, probably
because they were probably serving a lot more people from that location
and were a lot more on top of keeping the UPS and backup generators and
multiple backhauls up and running 24/7 A few bad storms had them out
of service for the long part of a day. I get the same
frequency/duration of outages (or higher) from my local "Tewa Tower"
source which is probably a combination of problems with right-of-way for
service on-pueblo and the small(er) number of clients (hundreds at
most?) served from there.
I considered Starlink a few years ago as a way to be redundant with my
neighbors who variously do use some version of Comcast and Qwest copper
lines. There was a moment when I though I could talk them into letting
me mesh all 4 houses together with 4 backhauls (comcast, qwest,
microwave ala NMSurf, Starlink) but they were not really up for being
that chummy or dependent on me/one-another I think?
What really stopped me was fine print in Musk's EULA which suggested
that by accepting his service I was implicitely endorsing the idea that
whomever landed on Mars first got to commercialize it. I wish I could
find that fine print again or some reference to it, maybe I made it up?
Oh, yeh, then he said "we will coup anyone we want"... buh!
- Steve
On 9/12/24 8:30 AM, Gary Schiltz wrote:
It depends on what's on the other end of your fiber connection :-)
Here in land that tech forgot, getting more than a few tens of
megabits feels luxurious. One carrier has fiber optic passing over my
property, and they offered to tap into it and give me 20 megabits for
the low low price of $100 a month. Starlink's 300 megabits for $45 a
month is heaven on earth. Isn't Santa Fe still sort of part of the
third world?
On Thu, Sep 12, 2024 at 9:06 AM Marcus Daniels <mar...@snoutfarm.com>
wrote:
Neat trick, but no substitute for fiber. 🙂
https://www.speedtest.net/result/c/d227591a-534e-4811-a3e9-1b055d44914d
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*From:* Friam <friam-boun...@redfish.com> on behalf of Gary
Schiltz <g...@naturesvisualarts.com>
*Sent:* Wednesday, September 11, 2024 8:50 PM
*To:* The Friday Morning Applied Complexity Coffee Group
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*Subject:* Re: [FRIAM] Starlink
I have Starlink here in Ecuador and am very happy with it. But
here it is only $45 a month and $120 there.
On Wed, Sep 11, 2024 at 10:21 PM Gillian Densmore
<gil.densm...@gmail.com> wrote:
What are folks's thoughts on this? for the atrocious choices
of conned-cast or...nothing? or are there finally ISP's that
aren't DSL here?-- How is it? what's it really like? are they
anygood? the speed is still god awful at a pathetic 25mgs. but
so is Comcast. Appallingly enough. We get snow storms and
stuff, is it a blackout then?
Asking because Comcast is going. From sometime early this
morning to about 20 minutes ago being out. Being legendarily
terrible and no one has had the korvnka's the slap them with a
RICO anti-trust suit yet. God only knows why.
So looking starlink and open to other options:
they have to real propper internet, at least 200mbs each way
and white-glove levels of service.
CC owen as well. I suspect we've both had enough.
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