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Re: Starlink [was: Re: Reminder of L3GO meeting a week from today.]

  • Subject: Re: Starlink [was: Re: Reminder of L3GO meeting a week from today.]
  • From: Martin Hicks <mort [ at ] bork [ dot ] org>
  • Date: Mon, 8 Mar 2021 13:54:52 -0500
A friend of mine just got it.  He's here:  https://goo.gl/maps/Bj2ZBBzhnkYhDa1x7

He's over the moon because their satellite internet has been so poor.
And it's cheaper than their other internet for 10x the speed and 30ms
latency.

mh

On Mon, 8 Mar 2021 at 11:40, Benjamin LaHaise <ben [ at ] communityfibre [ dot ] ca> wrote:
>
> On Mon, Mar 08, 2021 at 11:32:31AM -0500, Richard Guy Briggs wrote:
> > I'd be curious about your take on:
> >       https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/ottawa/starlink-high-speed-internet-rural-ontario-1.5937037
>
> Starlink is not competitive with fibre.  It's not faster, it's not cheaper
> and it remains to be seen how reliable it is, as the beta still has
> issues.  Another challenge is seeing how well it will cope with tree
> coverage, as that's a huge part of the problem in a number of places in
> the Ottawa valley.
>
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