[FRIAM] Starlink

[Barry MacKichan]

What is the situation in Santa Fe now? When I left in 2018, fiber still 
seemed in the distant future. Our new house in North Carolina, when 
built, had two fiber boxes by the street, one for CenturyLink and one 
for Spectrum. Since then, another one was added (unfortunately they 
accidentally cut the fiber line into the house, sending us back a 
century for about a week). We pay a bit over a hundred a month for a 
full gigabit. It is cheaper (per bit) at half a gigabit, but we were 
running a business and went for the full gigabit.

Since the infrastructure act was passed, our county has been flooded 
with trucks towing huge spools of orange fiber cable. They are running 
alongside rural roads and along the village roads back from the main 
roads. It looks like fiber will be within a hundred yards of almost 
every driveway.

We have the option of upgrading to 2 gigabit service, and lord knows 
what we could do bonding together three different providers 😉.


— Barry

On 12 Sep 2024, at 10:30, Gary Schiltz wrote:

> It depends on what's on the other end of your fiber connection :-)  
> Here in
> land that tech forgot, getting more than a few tens of megabits feels
> luxurious. One carrier has fiber optic passing over my property, and 
> they
> offered to tap into it and give me 20 megabits for the low low price 
> of
> $100 a month. Starlink's 300 megabits for $45 a month is heaven on 
> earth.
> Isn't Santa Fe still sort of part of the third world?
>
> On Thu, Sep 12, 2024 at 9:06 AM Marcus Daniels 
> <marcus at snoutfarm.com> wrote:
>
>> Neat trick, but no substitute for fiber. 🙂
>>
>> https://www.speedtest.net/result/c/d227591a-534e-4811-a3e9-1b055d44914d
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>> *From:* Friam <friam-bounces at redfish.com> on behalf of Gary Schiltz <
>> gary at naturesvisualarts.com>
>> *Sent:* Wednesday, September 11, 2024 8:50 PM
>> *To:* The Friday Morning Applied Complexity Coffee Group <
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>> *Subject:* Re: [FRIAM] Starlink
>>
>> I have Starlink here in Ecuador and am very happy with it. But here 
>> it is
>> only $45 a month and $120 there.
>>
>> On Wed, Sep 11, 2024 at 10:21 PM Gillian Densmore 
>> <gil.densmore at gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>>
>> What are folks's thoughts on this? for the atrocious  choices of
>> conned-cast or...nothing? or are there finally ISP's that aren't DSL
>> here?-- How is it? what's it really like? are they anygood? the speed 
>> is
>> still god awful at a pathetic 25mgs. but so is Comcast. Appallingly 
>> enough.
>> We get snow storms and stuff, is it a blackout then?
>> Asking because Comcast is going. From sometime early this morning to 
>> about
>> 20 minutes ago being out. Being legendarily terrible and no one has 
>> had the
>> korvnka's the slap them with a RICO anti-trust suit yet. God only 
>> knows
>> why.
>> So looking starlink and open to other options:
>> they have to real propper internet, at least 200mbs each way and
>> white-glove levels of service.
>> CC owen as well. I suspect we've both had enough.
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