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You're right most of the time. I have had a 99% "unnoticeable" experience with Starlink in rural Canada. I definitely still experienced rain fade during heavy rain storms and occasional clear-sky blips for 30s-2min or so. Vastly superior to anything else I've used for Internet access in remote areas for sure, but not perfect. I have also experienced longer-term (30 min or so) service degradations where the connection stayed up but the bandwidth dropped to ~10Mbit/1Mbit.

Most of the time no one would notice. For some applications it's definitely something that needs to get designed in.



That's very similar to my experience with Comcast in downtown Palo Alto in 2010. A 99% "unnoticeable" experience, and then a multi-day outage caused by a massive storm.

I still occasionally get blips on Comcast, mostly late at night when I'm one of the few who notices.




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