Anyone else received an email from Starlink regarding proposed FCC rule change that will interfere with Starlink internet service?
Why is Dish still in business anyway? How many 75+ year old boomers are there that still watch cable networks instead of streaming?
mom and dad still use a cable service no streaming thereMy mother does. She is a 70yo boomer if you must know!
Because until Starlink, about 70% of the land area in the US had zero options beside Dish. This will kill dish if they don't adapt.Why is Dish still in business anyway? How many 75+ year old boomers are there that still watch cable networks instead of streaming?
If they don't adapt, or hamstring the competition to survive. Gotta love when their business survival model is less interested in supporting the unserved/underserved customers, and trying to make sure other services can't either.Because until Starlink, about 70% of the land area in the US had zero options beside Dish. This will kill dish if they don't adapt.
I got mine a couple weeks ago. Its a game changer.
Why is Dish still in business anyway? How many 75+ year old boomers are there that still watch cable networks instead of streaming?
Same here.Let's put our thinking cap on here for a second and ponder the question of why people may still have TV service... Hint: we're discussing a service that promises to bring high speed internet to the huge amount of people that don't have access to any...
And also, we still have dtv. I find streaming tedious at times. The more services you have the worse it gets. It sure would be nice if they'd all come together to form one service I could pay a single bill for... Err, wait.
I watch probably 50/50 streaming/dtv.
Same. I like to be able to turn something on for background noise with no other effort required.I watch TV for about 2 hours a night, on streaming I spend most of that time looking for something to watch and the rest of the time watching the first 10-15 mins of a horrible move that I turn off, rinse and repeat.
Love to see Elon get into cable or fiber internet and give Comcast some actual competition. Satellite is cool for remote areas, but it generally sucks dick as far as a real internet connection goes.
ive seen 150mbps and my ping is between 20 and 80 usually around 50.Love to see Elon get into cable or fiber internet and give Comcast some actual competition. Satellite is cool for remote areas, but it generally sucks dick as far as a real internet connection goes.
I game with it pretty often with no issues.ive seen 150mbps and my ping is between 20 and 80 usually around 50.
During peak usage times its usually around 25mbps
I haven't had time to game on it yet but I hear it works fine. No reason it shouldn't.
Solid, but nowhere near gigabit+ speeds you can get on cable and fiber. Playing games isn't a problem, but I definitely don't want to go back to 100 mbps speeds when games are regularly several hundred gigs with massive regular updates.ive seen 150mbps and my ping is between 20 and 80 usually around 50.
During peak usage times its usually around 25mbps
I haven't had time to game on it yet but I hear it works fine. No reason it shouldn't.
Love to see Elon get into cable or fiber internet and give Comcast some actual competition. Satellite is cool for remote areas, but it generally sucks dick as far as a real internet connection goes.
Solid, but nowhere near gigabit+ speeds you can get on cable and fiber. Playing games isn't a problem, but I definitely don't want to go back to 100 mbps speeds when games are regularly several hundred gigs with massive regular updates.
Bigger issue is competition though. Comcast has a complete monopoly in large parts of the country and flat out fucking suck. Nevermind how much they spend on lobbyists to ensure FCC regulation favors them and kills competition. It's retarded that most major metro areas in this country only have one provide with shitty datacapped tier pricing.
Probably all of them? I don't know any boomers that stream. I'm solid gen x, and still have DirecTV. Two TVs at my house, one at the new property, one at the deer lease, and one at my brother's place in OK. 4 locations, one bill.Why is Dish still in business anyway? How many 75+ year old boomers are there that still watch cable networks instead of streaming?
My point was never the comparison. I'm just saying I wish Musk would branch into fixed broadband while he's branching out into other parts of tech and taking on shitty corporate business practices.tell me you haven't studied the starlink model, without telling me you haven't studied their model
Most of the people who are using starlink don't have an option for cable or fiber. 25Mbps is plenty for their use case. Tech will only improve, and their speeds will only increase.
for the 20ish years the internet has been around, I had dial up for about 10 of them super unreliable wisp service for 5 and a fairly stable wisp that was capped at 3mbps for the rest.tell me you haven't studied the starlink model, without telling me you haven't studied their model
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Most of the people who are using starlink don't have an option for cable or fiber. 25Mbps is plenty for their use case. Tech will only improve, and their speeds will only increase.
Solid, but nowhere near gigabit+ speeds you can get on cable and fiber. Playing games isn't a problem, but I definitely don't want to go back to 100 mbps speeds when games are regularly several hundred gigs with massive regular updates.
Bigger issue is competition though. Comcast has a complete monopoly in large parts of the country and flat out fucking suck. Nevermind how much they spend on lobbyists to ensure FCC regulation favors them and kills competition. It's retarded that most major metro areas in this country only have one provide with shitty datacapped tier pricing.