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starlink should not exist.
Found the person who's never lived in a area with dial-up or conventional sattelite as their only options. I hate Elon as much as the next person, but starlink is revolutionary for those with no other options.
it's really not though it's mid at best.
Do you understand how slow dial up is? Do you understand that conventional sattelite throttles you to unusable speeds after a shockingly low data limit is used up? Those services are not modern internet services. Starlink is. In my testing, I got an average of 45mbps down over a 40GB download. That's so fucking fast compared to even DSL, which is commonly 10mbps down, and even slower up.
Also, typical satellite has horrendous lag. I used to work with someone who was in a remote area (didn't even have cell service) and the quality was fine talking with him through VoIP, but it would take a few seconds to get a response for anything. I can only imagine video. Current boss has Starlink and I wouldn't know a difference.
Heck, up until a few years ago my father-in-law had 1.5mbps DSL and that was pretty much unusable.