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[โ€“] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Real talk: are you in dialup or something like satellite with really bad rates? Backwoods? Fire watch tower?

[โ€“] Ironfacebuster 3 points 2 months ago (3 children)

I live up on a mountain but I get 4G and 5G service, so my Internet is one of those 5G boxes. It's usually pretty fast, but recently it's been chugging along (luckily only for a handful of minutes at a time before going back to normal for a while)

[โ€“] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago

That image made me relapse.

[โ€“] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago (1 children)

whats the mountain view look like?

[โ€“] Ironfacebuster 1 points 2 months ago (1 children)

At risk of pinpointing my exact location on a map, I'll oblige!

Picking the standout ones of course, usually it's just trees with or without leaves

[โ€“] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Oh my gosh that's fuckin pretty.

looks hella cold tho

[โ€“] Ironfacebuster 1 points 2 months ago (1 children)

It's pretty great! Sometimes it gets so foggy I can't see past the first layer of trees next to my house. It does get cold as hell during the winter (and hot as hell during the summer!) so I have to heat with a wood stove.

[โ€“] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago (1 children)

that's really incredible. what country is that?

[โ€“] Ironfacebuster 1 points 1 month ago (1 children)
[โ€“] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I'm very far from a Musk fan and hate the massive leap towards Kessler Syndrome that Starlink satellites have wrought but... I think you should get Starlink.

[โ€“] Ironfacebuster 1 points 1 month ago (1 children)

It's alright now, thanks for the suggestion though! The provider was just having awful outages

I actually had starlink a while back, the latency was worse than my 5G/4G box so I didn't stick with it

[โ€“] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago

A true lesser of two evils scenario, then. I'm sorry those are your options.