Quote from: Wayne Newton on December 02, 2022, 15:46:23Or DSL with 20 / 1.5 ! That's my situation in rural AZ ... all I hear about is money for Broadband but the dollars follow the population. This is expected for pure commercial deployments , but in terms of govt subsidies it should be more agnostic to population density.
People need to understand that Starlink, like other similar systems within a certain geographical location, is always a network topology "hub" with a shared bandwidth resource, and not a fastest "switch".
Therefore, the more users of such systems near you, the slower the connection will be in both directions. Physics cannot be deceived and miracles do not happen.
Starlink, of course, is trying to recoup the costs, but as I wrote earlier, this is more of an "emergency" network and a network for communication opportunities for professionals in the "field" , as well as for the ability to break into the network for opposition circles in totalitarian and authoritarian countries, if you can secretly bring equipment.
Whenever possible, you need to pull fiber optics to your settlement as the fastest and most stable source of network access.
Someday, with scientific and technological progress, phones may learn to communicate directly with satellites at high speed, although this requires simply devilish sensitivity on the side of the satellites, because high radiation is dangerous for the owner of the phone, as well as high consumption quickly draining the battery.
In any case, Starlink as a long-term way to provide a stable and fast connection is initially a bad idea with an increase in the number of users. And the sky littered with satellites begins to annoy not only astronomers ...