• rc__buggy@sh.itjust.works
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    2 days ago

    HugesNet has low throughput but it’s pretty reliable. I had high hopes for Starlink but it seems to be a dud.

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      I’m sorry, but not even having a Musk backed product as my only alternative could get me to use HugesNet’s antifunctional service. Literally dialup is better.

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      My coworkers mom paid $200 a month with a 20GB datacap for HughesNet and couldn’t even stream Netflix or Youtube. Their service is completely useless in 2025.

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      It’s been over a year since the last big Starlink outage. That’s a lot better than my old DSL provider.

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          I live in a country praised for its IT industry, digital government and whatever

          I got off ADSL in 2024. Fucking lol. I don’t even live on a farm or anything. Lucky to receive fiber though, now they want to prioritize 5G home connections instead.

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        2 days ago

        yeah? For some reason I thought it had outages here and there all the time.

        Still, they were down for almost 3 hours today and that’s a lot worse than my old DSL provider.

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          I have a place in the boonies and I use starlink. I find it to be vastly superior to the only other semi-viable option, line of site. Speeds aren’t as great as they use to be and I’ll be happy to change when another better or similar option comes along.

          I do experience mico-outages every few days. Like a 1 to 2 second drop that I would only notice with vid chats or gaming.

          I do have a media server and surf the seven seas. Starlink is crap for that, so I found a new home for it as I move my residence out here.