Posted on 05/11/2024 8:35:56 AM PDT by srmanuel
Just starting my third year on Starlink, and since the only other alternative is wireless and Starlink is two orders of magnitude faster, it really isn’t a difficult choice. So far it’s been outstanding, and I do not have an ideal location. It was intended for exactly this sort of rural, underserved market.
I would say, So what ??? If you think it’s safer to live outside of an urban area in the rural areas of America, lack of internet access might have been a reason to not make the jump, now that is not the case, if you combine fast internet service with reliable cell phone service to remote areas all over the USA and the world that is a major game changer.
Residential plan $120 month
Just Starlink’s non-iOS/ Android service seems to get so many, not-so-good reviews; the iOS etc service is well-rated. Any idea why?
I love my starlink and am just about to get one for my wifes house when the remodel is finished, 2 weeks!
Personally, I think many of the bad reviews are planted by rivals Internet providers and people who make a living as contrarians and post negative reviews for clicks and people who have unrealistic views of the service.
why does your wife have a separate house
We have 2 houses on the same street. Do you ever wish you could just tell your Wife to go home and leave you alone?? I can!
A widespread EMP attack would require nuclear weapons and would constitute a strategic nuclear attack against the US directly threatening vital US interests. US defense policy is pretty clear. The betting man would go all in on the per being a goner.
As a remote user it is a game changer. Just did as speed test as I was typing 200 Mbps. That is faster than Verizon FIOS in my metropolitan area house [I could up it at a premium price that is much higher than Starlink]. Local LOS ISP is 10Mbps, and it is unreliable with constant interuptions if you are doing cell phone over WiFi [we don’t have cell connection here either.
And setup was an absolute breeze - connect the wire from the antenna to the router, and the wire from the router to the PS and the wire from the PS to the wall plug - all different and all only go in one way. Download the Starlink app on your phone. Look for the Starlink WiFi connection, connect to it. Then your Starlink app tells you everything else to do in an easy step by step - very clear - process. It takes 10 minutes. I could do it again in about 4 minutes.
And the router is a dream - very good line of site range and you can set up a simple mesh in your home buying extra mesh routers that are a lot cheaper than a lot of other companies.
Couldn’t be happier.
Let’s say the EMP warheads were launched from Submarines off the east and west coasts in international waters. No country has any defense for that, going further, what if the EMP effects were only along the east and west coasts maybe 100 miles inland, it would be devastating and yes, we could respond with a nuclear response, then what at that point it’s Armageddon.
Russia and China likely not going to risk the response, what about Iran or North Korea, to say they don’t have the ability is naive IMO, they can get the ability from Russia or China.
Fortunately those countries don’t have those capabilities and Russia and China are not about to give them those capabilities, and just because they are sublaunched and only kills half the US population is not a prescription against Argmageddon against the perpetrator and for something like that we would know who the perpetrator is.
You think, North Korea is dirt poor but somehow managed to build an ICBM capable of hitting the US mainland.
To think that China didn’t play a part in that is naive and to think if North Korea has the capability, then Iran probably has the same capability.
My point, is technology can’t be bottled up and kept to 2-3 countries, countries like Pakistan has nuclear weapons, at one time South Africa has nuclear weapons, there is no reason to think North Korea or Iran don’t have the same technology.
There are plenty of real threats facing the US. I would go get an ulcer over one of those and not this thing made up in your brain or implanted there by some rather ill-meaning self-dealing advisors trying to cook up a scheme for making a lot of money advising the US government on schemes to deal with the EMP threat.
The defense is that the perpetrator gets whipe off the face of the earth. Period. No equivocation. No ifs ands or buts. Period.
There is a certain point where so many objects are in orbit that a single collision creates a chain reaction of destruction.
Might be - but no SpaceX or StarLink public stock is available for small investors.
If StarLink eventually spins off as a private company, buying the StarLink Initial Public Offering (IPO) would be a 50-50 gamble, because of the huge pro-and-con Elon Musk connection.
Yes it would be a big gamble in terms of an investment but one with a monumental upside and a downside of only what you are willing to risk, let’s say your risk tolerance is $5000 and you get 50 shares at $100/share, what would that $5000 be worth in 10 years, it could be worth 0 or it could be worth $50,000 or more
Things like Microsoft and Bitcoin were probably 50/50 at one point but have a bunch of people extremely wealthy, I caught a very small part of the upside of Microsoft and that has been fantastic, I have zero exposure to Bitcoin, I didn’t understand Bitcoin
In Starlink’s case I have a really good understanding of the potential especially when the voice aspect gets calculated
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