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<p>I'm signed up, waiting for Starlink to be available at my low
latitude (and as more service comes online). I think they (or
any Satellite company) could do really good business on a
low-volume, burst-demand service... to be used almost
exclusively when your primary service is down. It seems like
they could serve 10x the number of users @ $30/month than they
could with more-full service @ $100/month . I tried talking my
neighbors (4 total in an island 1/2 mile from anyone else) into
meshing up our network services (one does have satellite, another
has weak-antique copper-lines put in by the phone company 40 years
ago) but they are not curious nor pro-active types. I even
offered to boost my own service up to a scale that would cover
*all* of our bandwidth needs if *they* were providing *me* with
the redundancy *I* need. Oh well.<br>
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<p>I'm in a media hole, getting my internet via microwave off of
Tesuque Peak and no good wires/fiber close enough to link up with
(and right-of-way issues with the pueblo in any case). No cell
tower signal even with a booster (intermittent enough to have tiny
bits of txt squirt through). I have a clear view of the
equatorial sky. I use GoogleFi and Roku streaming for
phone/txt/TV which makes me entirely dependent on that one little
tower on a mountain with a 2 week supply of diesel for the backup
genny. Snow has never taken them down (even deep/heavy) but high
winds sometimes repoint the antennae enough someone has to go up
and manually reposition them... <br>
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<p>If I were truly paranoid I suppose I'd jump on the IP over Ham
Radio bandwagon too and wrap my house in grounded copper mesh
against the potential Solar Storm/EMP that will probably take out
global comms (before a rogue asteroid takes out the biosphere).
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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 11/6/20 9:36 AM, Marcus Daniels
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<p class="MsoNormal">I’m fond of my fiber optic connection, but
there’s a reason for considering Starlink as a backup.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">MSNBC is back now. For a while it was just
Fox News! ! (I have IPTV.)<o:p></o:p></p>
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<b>Sent:</b> Friday, November 6, 2020 8:24 AM<br>
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<p>My ISP (CNSP/NMSURF) went down at 1:30 yesterday afternoon
and did not return until the wee hours this morning. They
reported that a major fiber cut *south* of ABQ was the cause
and it took out their primary feed, but also a couple of
secondary/tertiary feeds they usually can fall back on.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p>I blame the Boogaloo Bois... or maybe the Cowboys for Trump
with their backhoes.... do Antifa know how to operate heavy
equipment? Surely it is in their training protocol? They
seem more likely to actually have people who would know how to
splice up broken fiber.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Any ideas on what hijinks we’ll be seeing
in the coming days?
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<p class="MsoNormal">My internet has been fluctuating in
performance for 15 minutes or so. Of course, my first
thought was a White House ordered cyber operation on
media/ISPs.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Marcus<o:p></o:p></p>
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