[FRIAM] Starlink

[Gillian Densmore]

Fiber is still 20 minutes into the future. Alas likely never without a
overhaul of the "leadership"

On Thu, Sep 12, 2024 at 8:56 AM Barry MacKichan <
barry.mackichan at mackichan.com> wrote:

> 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
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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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