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To: srmanuel

We’re rural and had one, very iffy, internet provider. They kept trying to upsell us to their 80Mbps service, even though tech after tech kept telling us the line on the road had been damaged by lightning and the fastest we coukd get was 40 Mbps. For our needs 40 is fine, but the techs also told us we were lucky to even be getting 40 and that we were the end of the line on the road even though the road conti n ues another. 2 miles with dozens of houses. It wasn’t enough potential business for the company to bother with repairs. So the second that Starlink was available in our area we jumped, and it’s been fantastic. We’ve had 1 outage in 8 months and that was fixed quickly. With the old service we had routine outages that sometimes took days to resolve. On the down side, the service is expensive and only business class was available so doubly expensive,and the equipment was expensive to purchase and a pain in the butt to install the way we wanted.


12 posted on 05/11/2024 9:14:38 AM PDT by Roos_Girl (The world is full of educated derelicts. - Calvin Coolidge)
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To: Roos_Girl

My daughter is rural, and like you, switched to Starlink. She loves it.


17 posted on 05/11/2024 9:51:05 AM PDT by sockmonkey (Conservative. Not a Neocon.)
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