Thursday July 24th
I know this may not be the right place. But I am thinking about getting Hughes.net. Has anyone used it, and if so were you happy with the service?
My internet usage is steaming, work VPN and watch tv stuff like that.
I used to install and service Hughes, you probably won’t be happy with it as your sole provider especially if you have other options. It’s a real piece of shit.
This is what industry professionals call a “whoopsie”.
I want an alternative, i am tired of giving money to musk…
There is Eutelsat, but I’m not sure if they offer residential coverage. And EU is working on expansion.
Yeah, im waiting for OneWeb. There is not residential coverage right now.
Look at Wisp providers
They are really bad, i need good internet because i work from home (and for other things).
It depends
They aren’t all bad. Modern 60Ghz is pretty solid especially if you aren’t crossing a big distance.
My father-in-law has it contracted, he lives just a few minutes from here, and he always has a bad connection, with interruptions. He gets less than 5mb of download speed and practically nothing for upload. And don’t even get me started on the latency.
You can easily do gigabit speeds if the provider has at least semi modern hardware. It sounds like they are running 20 year old equipment.
I am in Spain, that website is not useful for me.
Oh yes. Let’s block out the sun.
T-Mobile just launched a competitor service yesterday.And, very quickly retracting that. Their service piggybacks off of Starlink. I misremembered the original article I read.
T-Mobile doesn’t exist in Spain, right?
Genuine question: Why do you need to rely on starlink or wonder about T-mobile in Spain? Unless one lives in the middoe of nowhere, there’s a wide range of ISP’s which cover most of the territory and offer high-speed service over fibre. If you don’t want to give your money to the big providers, Digi has expanded immensely as of late and they’re quite cheap. Sorry if that came off as nosey, you probably had to choose starlink for a good reason and already know about ISP’s in Spain
I live in the middle of nowhere haha.
I have a dream of living full-time aboard a sailboat and sailing around the world, so I was excited about Starlink for the prospect of being able to get Internet access in the middle of the ocean. That was before Musk went completely off the fascist deep end, though; now I’m really hoping for a competitor to spring up before I get to my boat phase.
I heard Amazon wants to enter the market. I’m not sure that would be any better from an ethics standpoint but it’s something.
True, that’s exactly like choosing between the devil and the deep blue sea (╯°□°)╯
Many people use StarLink because they’re not stationary.
Bizarre that there’s a single point of failure for the entire network.
I haven’t seen any news yet on a cause, but honestly with this last week my first thought was that Elon put Grok in charge of the network infrastructure, and well…Grok went oops. And then like any good LLM, lied about what happened.
this from the man who thinks microservices represent bloat and you can just turn them off
I wonder if that was the root cause
It would be a tragedy if it never came back up
I only care because Ukrainians on the front line rely on it.
Im curious if the Russians do too
There are legitimately Americans who rely on it too.
Yeah fuck Elon but starlink has actually been incredible for rural areas.
