I sometimes get 300 Mbps on the older Starlink hardware supported here in Ecuador. With the newer hardware they supply in the USA it would probably approach 500. Even at $120 it sounds reasonable to me. Down here they don’t seem to mind wiring a few houses together. I don’t know about up there.
On Thu, Sep 12, 2024 at 4:31 PM steve smith <sasm...@swcp.com> wrote: > 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 >> ------------------------------ >> *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 < >> friam@redfish.com> >> *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. 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