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It’ll be curious to see how this progresses with Starlink.



I live in the country, work in a fairly data-centric job (infosec) and have worked from home a majority of the time for the past 15 years. Until this Feb my only connection to the internet was a 15M/768k DSL connection.

In Feb I got involved with a statewide project to bring Starlink in to see if it would support rural broadband initiatives. I've been running on it since. Average download and upload speeds are 10x and 30x respectively.

Up until the last month or so, however, the intermittent outages in Starlink had been a much bigger problem than the low bandwidth of the DSL connection, and so I worked over DSL and the rest of the house ran on Starlink. It's slowly getting to the point of being acceptible and I just recently switched work over to Starlink, but there are days where i switch back because the unplanned interruptions are extreeemely irritating.

All of that said, I'm super stoked about Starlink and think it's going to do a lot for rural/mobile living around the world.





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