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SpaceX says Starlink internet has ‘extraordinary demand,’

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Post by CydeWeys »

csours wrote: post #50
CydeWeys wrote: post #16

Earlier quoted context omitted.

An effect on what?

Gaming, voip

I'm just not seeing how a hundredth of a second of latency variance would have a noticeable effect at all on either of those. Latency variances of much more than that are already common (and dealt with).

Re: SpaceX says Starlink internet has ‘extraordinary demand,’

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Post by trashcan »

mycall wrote: post #25
trashcan wrote: post #14

I would love to have this as a backup internet option. I live in a town that has Google Fiber (literally 50 feet away from me), but I don't have access. I'm oncall and cannot be without internet at almost any time, and my internet goes down much more than I'm comfortable with. I hope Starlink is an option soon!

Can you not use mobile hotspot/tether internet as a backup option?

That is what I currently do. I use >~1TB a month in bandwidth though, so it isn't practical to tether everything so I end up only tethering my laptop and even that is still pretty expensive on Google Fi ($10/gb until I am throttled).

Fortunately my internet has only had problems maybe 4 or 5 times in the last year. It just feels irresponsible of me to rely on data that eventually gets throttled to be almost unusable when I need it for my job. Maybe I will get a backup AT&T internet connection and expense it at some point :(.

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