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)

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. Normal web browsing is glacial and bad 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)