It's not even close to a monopoly. Satellite TV networks have offered internet for years. It's not Elons fault that their internet service is dog shit.
That's true. There are several sat internet providers. Hughesnet and Viasat come to mind
It's not Musk's fault that theirs is fucking bullshit and Starlink is actually good from what I've heard
It's called competition thru technological innovation. It's the actual reason our patent system even exists
Musk's system offers incredible downlink/uplink speed and low latency. Traditional sat internet has decent down/up but their latency is SO HORRIFIC that it's only good for streaming video once it has begun.
Normal web browsing on sat internet is glacial and a horrible experience. We're talking 1500ms just to begin to contact a server...sometimes web assets take in excess of 20 seconds to load. Modern websites often have in excess of 200-300 assets to load (images, javascripts, css files)
This. Starlink is legitimately better than landline internet I have to say just because you get the same speed if not better and you can get it literally anywhere in the country and you can take it with you wherever you want to go without having to have some monkey come out to drill a hole in your wall. And all the other satellite providers suck ass and they limit your data and they are slow as molasses. But now after having starlink you couldn't pay me to go back to CenturyLink or Xfinity
They really hate it when the monopoly benefits the people.
It's not even close to a monopoly. Satellite TV networks have offered internet for years. It's not Elons fault that their internet service is dog shit.
That's true. There are several sat internet providers. Hughesnet and Viasat come to mind
It's not Musk's fault that theirs is fucking bullshit and Starlink is actually good from what I've heard
It's called competition thru technological innovation. It's the actual reason our patent system even exists
Musk's system offers incredible downlink/uplink speed and low latency. Traditional sat internet has decent down/up but their latency is SO HORRIFIC that it's only good for streaming video once it has begun.
Normal web browsing on sat internet is glacial and a horrible experience. We're talking 1500ms just to begin to contact a server...sometimes web assets take in excess of 20 seconds to load. Modern websites often have in excess of 200-300 assets to load (images, javascripts, css files)
This. Starlink is legitimately better than landline internet I have to say just because you get the same speed if not better and you can get it literally anywhere in the country and you can take it with you wherever you want to go without having to have some monkey come out to drill a hole in your wall. And all the other satellite providers suck ass and they limit your data and they are slow as molasses. But now after having starlink you couldn't pay me to go back to CenturyLink or Xfinity