Works great in a very remote location for people I know. It did have a hardware failure after one day and they shipped a new kit with no hassle and it has worked well since then.
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I'm remote-ish but also on a main road so have pretty good land service, but my ISP pisses me off and I don't like being held hostage by a terrestrial near-monopoly with no competition.
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Having options is good but who knows where Starlink leads us.
What do you mean?
As in what type of control they have or may garner.
Roger that.
My ideal is a wide-reaching (like tens of thousands of miles) mesh network of local mesh subnets that voluntarily choose to peer with each other. Until we have that, landline ISPs seem like the least sovereign and optionality-preserving choice. pile onto that the fact that my local ISP routinely goes offline or does "unplanned maintenance", and I can't take the service with me if I leave my house, Starlink (with good e2e encryption, Tor, etc.) seems like the lesser of the evils.
But you can also read this as: "my ISP customer support is so fucking infuriating that I'll take any opportunity I can to tell them to go fuck themselves and move to a competitor" 😆
Local ISPs are brutal for sure.