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  • Starlink, before anything got launched

    From JAB@21:1/5 to All on Fri Feb 14 10:35:02 2025
    "Early Starlink, before anything got launched, they were saying,
    'We're going to compete with fiber for everybody.' Then it was, 'We're
    going to compete with fiber for some.' Then it's, 'We're going to
    offer good enough broadband for rural,'" Ali, the Penn State
    professor, says. "They've really tampered down expectations. Will the
    speeds go up as the technology improves? Sure, but how long is that
    going to take?"
    ...
    ...
    The most recent data from Ookla -- albeit a year old -- shows that
    Starlink users are getting 65/10Mbps on average, with 58 milliseconds
    of latency. In 2022, Starlink was denied nearly $900 million in rural
    broadband subsidies because it failed to hit that 100/20Mbps
    benchmark. Musk said on X in January 2024 that the idea that Starlink
    had failed to reach these speeds was "utterly false" and that
    "Starlink exceeds that right now."

    https://www.cnet.com/home/internet/features/inside-the-rise-of-7000-starlink-satellites-and-their-inevitable-downfall/

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  • From D@21:1/5 to JAB on Fri Feb 14 23:06:08 2025
    On Fri, 14 Feb 2025, JAB wrote:

    "Early Starlink, before anything got launched, they were saying,
    'We're going to compete with fiber for everybody.' Then it was, 'We're
    going to compete with fiber for some.' Then it's, 'We're going to
    offer good enough broadband for rural,'" Ali, the Penn State
    professor, says. "They've really tampered down expectations. Will the
    speeds go up as the technology improves? Sure, but how long is that
    going to take?"
    ...
    ...
    The most recent data from Ookla -- albeit a year old -- shows that
    Starlink users are getting 65/10Mbps on average, with 58 milliseconds
    of latency. In 2022, Starlink was denied nearly $900 million in rural broadband subsidies because it failed to hit that 100/20Mbps
    benchmark. Musk said on X in January 2024 that the idea that Starlink
    had failed to reach these speeds was "utterly false" and that
    "Starlink exceeds that right now."

    https://www.cnet.com/home/internet/features/inside-the-rise-of-7000-starlink-satellites-and-their-inevitable-downfall/

    In sweden, my 4G internet gets me about 100/50 Mbps at 11 USD per month.
    This is more than enough for my personal needs. The company has all its
    stuff in a DC with I think, 10 Gbps links.

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  • From JAB@21:1/5 to nospam@example.net on Sat Feb 15 11:12:41 2025
    On Fri, 14 Feb 2025 23:06:08 +0100, D <nospam@example.net> wrote:

    In sweden, my 4G internet gets me about 100/50 Mbps

    https://www.speedtest.net/global-index/sweden

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