I’ve been thinking of switching over to STARLINK given all the craziness going on and the fact that I believe it may be a way to get around the coming communication breakdown we’ve been expecting. Anyone have any experience using it or insight on privacy and reliability?
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I have been using it for 9 months now. It will drop off in heavy rain, other than that it is sold. I did get a cease and desist for pirating a song. So use a VPN.
Holy shit, for one song? Considering my ISP has never sent me one, they must be building up a case against me instead lol
I never use a VPN, but I also never directly torrent anything either, never had an issue. It's always the torrent part that gets ya. They catch a swarm of IPs and send them all a letter.
DDL is best or use private trackers.
Yes I was surprised. I have only pirated the one song on that service.
Damn, a single song? They must actually pay attention. Before I really learned about VPNs years ago I had downloaded episodes and movies without my ISP batting an eye.
It's gotten more strict, and they are trying to ban VPNs as well.
If they ban VPNs I'm gone.
I did torrent it. I've done that lots of times with my other service and never had a problem.
I like it, the internet only drops when big storms hit and it's usually just a minute or so blip. It has some packet drop stuff going on with it though that makes it hit or miss with games at times if you game. Its just a second of dropped packets randomly could be 5 minutes apart could be 10 so in multiplayer stuff you just randomly blow it. But it doesn't effect regular use. Musk is one fishy dude to say the least, but as far as remote internet goes. Legit, used it for ~2 years now.
Elon things.
Don't release Fauci Files.
Let Twitter be a free speech platform; debate what should be free speech. (How about free speech that does not violate SC rulings on 1A?)
Abuse animals for neuralink.
Scam Tesla owners with self driving feature for $10k.
Build tunnels with no escape or fire suppression, let Tesla's drive at 135 in said tunnels; remember a Tesla fire requires more than 100k gallons of water to put out.
Overpromise everything deliver very little.
The choice is yours.
Comms suggest that Neuralink is symbolic of the attempt to help MKUltra victims. Note how Neuralink's device is "the size of a coin" (payment/incentives), and how they're always always clamoring to hire more people.
These monkey injuries are Comms stating the inherent dangers in helping mentally tortured individuals.
Of course, you have to be on board that Elon Flipped back in March 2018 to begin entertaining the above.
He’s said psychadelics need to be decriminalized for help with mental issues. I don’t trust this brain chip as a solution to a man made problem.
Maybe they do.
Maybe that's why they are criminalized in the first place.
I don't know -- I don't use drugs. I don't even drink these days.
But I'm open to looking at this from a slightly different perspective.
Anyway, even if they do work, you'll need to work with someone trained to help you, not just buy something off the street.
what's the evidence that he flipped at that time?
If you want a concise bulletpoint list to prove to you that Elon Flipped in March 2018, you won't get it.
Elon's Twitter profile pic when Q was making his threats against "Rocket Man", whom we assumed was Kim Jong Un at the time. "The Arrest Pose". Coincidentally, this is when Reddit/Internet at large goes from having a lovefest over Elon to hating him.
Most anons here, despite the material being very agreeable to them, either lack the mental endurance or the appetite to consume the following: https://decodingsymbols.wordpress.com/2022/10/21/elon-musk/
excerpt:
"Simply put, the more wealth he has the more ability he has to move chess pieces in ops around the world.
Elon Musk has a history uniquely suited for exactly this. It connects to early online banking is a good clue on the mechanics of it."
I don't believe Elon flipped at all, I think he has been groomed for a high level white hat role in the same way that Trump has been. This article seems to support that idea as well.
No, he was most certainly a Clown. You have X.com starting up a mere month before the Columbine Shootings.
Understand that Trump would have stayed at 1% the entire Republican Primary were it not for Clown media PROMOTING him. As hard as it is for us to believe, Clowns were afraid of Jeb! And expressly wanted Trump to destroy him.
Why would they be afraid of Jeb? They merely had a huge preference for Hillary.
One of the least appetizing decodes to anons on here, is that of the Bushes.
https://decodingsymbols.wordpress.com/2021/03/06/bush/
what part of the proof am i missing?
That is a big issue. Who is flipped? Who is pretending to be bad to help the cause. Disinformation is real.
Watch the movie, trust no one. ;)
Funny enough this reminds me of much of what NASA does.. Boldly going Nowhere other then on paper!
Nas(h)a https://www.biblehub.com/hebrew/5378.htm
"Sometimes there is a pocket of gravity" ... lol
I got it last year. I had hughesnet before.( sometimes hughesnet would download at 60K. ) So starlink is much faster plus my cellphone can use starlink wifi. The only downside for me it's $120 a month.
Hughesnet isnt real internet. Unless you're from the 1990s.
Extremely rural people don't have much of a choice in many cases.
The home where I grew up in Michigan still doesn't have access to cable or fiber internet.
Same where I live and last time I asked when broadband would be available here, I was told, "Never."
They do now thanks to Starlink.
Starlink is very good satellite internet, but it's not cable or fiber.
The only satellite internet available in the past, such as Hughesnet, was atrocious.
The main difference between Starlink and the rest is the upload speed and the latency.
50ms as opposed to 450-700ms is an amazing upgrade.
Well cable and fiber might not ever be available in certain parts of the country
And this isn’t a bad thing. Helps reduce the dumbass relocation issue. Make it too easy to live everywhere and they move in like fleas and fuck everything up.
This is true and they’ve already proven to go down this route with various policy changes and price increases. But the investment and barrier to entry is low. No commitment one time cost at the same price as a ps5. Put it on pause and only unpause when needed
looks like an opportunity to establish a "Patriot" private network, where individuals host mesh networks for local connectivity, with Starlink up/down links for the long haul traffic. The tech is widely available, just needs a self organising group to get er done.
I had it under "best effort" service in NC. The speeds were slow. The router hardware with extender couldn't even cover my house. The customer service is awful - email only. I ditched it. They wouldn't refund my money so I charged back on my Amex. Now I have Starlink setup for sale.
I have two of them. It’s revolutionary. I wouldn’t use it as my primary if you game on a competitive level but for everything else it works just fine.
Space man good, space man bad..... whatever enon is, as far as your question goes, I don't have it but know a couple of people who do and I've never heard them say anything bad about it. Mostly praise and they like the convenience of it. Travels and what not.
Not yet available in my area, but supposedly coming in 2023.
I paid the $100 deposit to get on the waiting list in 2001. Still waiting. Not in my area. Price for service was $99 a month back then, ($400 was the price for the initial equipment buy in 2001) didn't know it had gone up so much already.
2001? I think I would have requested a refund after 22 years.
The deposit is still $100, equipment is $600 and monthly service is $120 in my area.
I am nothing if not patient. Maybe Elon will do me a solid and move me up on the list since I've been waiting so long. :)
I have had it for over 2 years now. Honestly I love it compared to what was available out here before. We had hughesnet and I found they blocked quite a bit of sites, it would go down constantly, took forever just to download family pics to Walmart to have printed. Started looking into starlink and got on the list, paid my deposit, within about 3 months my section of sky opened up and when we started I think it was 90 a month, now I’m paying 120. But the upside is we can download and multi stream in the house now. Kids can game, hubs and I watch tv for free now, I cut the Hughes and fish out which was about 250 a month. The only time we have noticed any issues is when major storms go over and even then it’s very short and not actually a problem at all, I mean with dish everything would reset and we would miss a part of the show or whatever and that was frustrating. With SL it just lasts a couple seconds and then pops back up exactly where we were at. I also can live chat with my parents now 1000 miles away… so that’s been great. Overall it’s an investment up front but one I am happy I made.
Lol hughesnet. What a bogus excuse for a company. They have a totally shitty product and only offer it in areas so remote they know nobody has a better option. Dont improve your product, find people with no choice!
Mine works great. Fast and reliable when you have good line of sight. Trees can be problematic.
Thanks for posing this question. I doubt Starlink can be any worse than TMobile WIFI, thus I'm shopping. No fiber optics where I live so hard wired internet is not an option. I am on my 5th router in 2.5 years and I estimate I've lost the internet at least 20 times. That is not simply a disconnect, it requires a call in, where you need to set aside at least an hour, just for a diagnosis and fix. If I include the annoying disconnects where I need to reset the router, the number of incidents are at least 100.
I've had it since the beta and have zero ccomplaints. My only other option is 8mbps wifi, I can't even get cell service here and I'm only just north of spokane
https://www.reagan.com/best_email_alternative Have you heard from this one? I want to have a conservative email and I don’t know what to use. Can someone help me? Please and thank you to all. God bless.
The only private email solution is one you host yourself.
That doesn't stop the NSA from making a copy of your email, either. Just keeps your data out of Google and Yahoo and Microsoft's hands.
i wouldn't recommend the service you linked to, however. For starters, I'm guessing batshit libs who happen to be system admins might block emails coming from reagan.com as spam.
You're going to want to look into a paid service if you don't roll your own, which if you knew how to do that, you probably wouldn't be asking.
Proton Mail has better privacy than Gmail or the other free accounts, but you'll likely run into space issues quickly on their free tier account. Not too big of a deal if you go in and delete emails and are willing to manage the account proactively.
$3.99 a month will get you the equivalent of a Gmail account but with encryption and other features.
https://proton.me/mail/pricing
Thank you so much.
Do you have proton?
I have a free account, but I'm not a heavy emailer.
I was looking into getting starlink as well. Very expensive but if it's a one time cost, I'd consider it. However... they state that the equipment is good for about 5 years. Does anyone know at the end of those 5 years if they replace the equipment or are you responsible for another $600 + equipment fee?
Not personally using it but a friend uses it. Before their only option was Verizon hot spot. Crazy expensive but can stream stuff without issues. Both work remote from home and have no issues. Just a year using it.
"Crazy expensive"
That's the part that doesn't get talked about so often.
We looked into it would be over 300 a month. Nope
We’ve been using it for almost a year. Had Hughesnet previously where speeds were slow and bandwidth horrible. No cable or fiber or other internet available where we live. Starlink is fantastic and about the same monthly cost as HN. Rarely any downtime. My wife works from home and is on meetings all day with no issues.
Hughesnet is just the worst. It's like selling radioactive water to people in a desert... you figure they gotta buy it bc there's no other choice around so it's a good way to move product that otherwise would be a liability