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To: Miami Rebel
SpaceX has a good ace up their sleeve. Starlink will likely soon take over most of AT&T rural service areas. I went on Viasat back in 2017 for internet service. My best connect speed ever with them was 70MBPS and rare and limited to 150 GB a month usage. Rain knocked it out alot. Starting in about 2022 I had to use my WIFI to replace my landline service AT&T abandoned.

Last month I bit the bullet and changed over to Starlink. It was a huge improvement to say the least. Viasat was out for duration on anything light rain and would go down sometimes several times a day. Me and a neighbor put in my Starlink and it has not failed once that I can notice. Last nights connect was 400MBPS but it usually stays over 150 consistently. Two TV's 3 cells, tablets, and it still had=s not buffered. My neighbors kid is a gamer still no issues for him and he has more on his.

When AT&T finally flips the landlines off Starlink is the only service that can reach most of the people in the US. I'm thankfull because my cell service does not work in my area none of them do without a WIFI connect.

The biggest win over for me is if my power goes out I can use my generator or 12V inverter and be back on line in minutes which cable can't. But COMCAST wanted $15K to hook me up.

18 posted on 07/22/2026 11:56:40 AM PDT by cva66snipe
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To: cva66snipe

Starlink is interesting, especially since I WFH. I saw prices starting @ $55/month? Thanks for that update.


32 posted on 07/22/2026 12:23:47 PM PDT by stevio (Fight until you die!)
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To: cva66snipe

Rural service areas are rapidly becoming direct fiber to the home areas. Out of five rural electric coops surrounding ours only one of them does not already have a fiber system to the customers. Shut your mouth when we have another bad ice storm.

The various rural electric cooperatives are not limited to providing electricity. Their charter provides for just about anything that improves rural life including internet at very low interest rate financing. We have had it system wide now for about 3 years. A hub and spoke broad band provision is also easy since just about all substations now have fiber monitoring them and guess what? The distribution of the sub-stations is just about right for the signal distribution of broadband.


37 posted on 07/22/2026 2:05:29 PM PDT by Sequoyah101 (Opinions and belly buttons, everybody has one and they get to show them if they want to.)
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