I signed up -- my rural location has very few even reasonable internet options. Right now I have microwave internet, which most people have not even heard of. The service provider has microwave towers on local mountains and if one has line-of-sight to a tower they will install an antenna on our roof and aim it at the tower.
Latency is 20-30 ms, which is not really bad, but they throttle the speed. We pay for 12 Mbps, but in reality only get 7 or 8, which is marginal for streaming video.
Even if I offer to buy better equipment on my own, they will not support it. They are the only game in town, with all of the customer service complacency that implies.
Even in beta, I suspect Starlink will give us a better experience. If not, the competition should light a fire under our existing provider.
exactly, for me if this works and works well for a reasonable price I would go with it....
For me it’s about a sense of freedom, if I could get my wife to go along, I would sell out and move out into the country and go off grid as much as possible.
With technology today it can be done and still have all the modern conveniences, it’s still kind of expensive for some things but the peace of mind for me would be worth it....
I would be retired, I don’t like having neighbors or living in a neighborhood with an HOA, I don’t like paying the fees, they’re constant arguments among neighbors and just the hustle and bustle of city life grates on me
I grew up in the country and would like to go back