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Elon Musk Is Charging Starlink Customers Gigantic Bogus Fees Because Its Network Is Being Crushed by “High Demand” (www.yahoo.com)
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[–] MehBlah@lemmy.world 22 points 1 month ago (14 children)

I have a neighbor who has access to 1gb cable and 1gb fiber from two ISP's. Both have high data caps. Instead he is rocking the starlink and I can't for the life of me figure out how he thinks that shit is somehow better than a hard link.

[–] stardreamer@lemmy.blahaj.zone 6 points 1 month ago (13 children)

I don't run starlink, but I run Starry (fixed point wireless) when AT&T and Spectrum are available because:

  1. I do networking for a living, including wireless (or technically my coworkers do). I know how this thing works and what it's limitations are
  2. I live in an area where it almost never rains, so little to no attenuation
  3. AT&T is on my banlist after shutting down my account for migrating to a 5G phone not on their approved list. Customer service didn't even let me transfer the sim back to the old 4G phone. The account termination was immediate. I ended up convincing customer service that I needed my phone number for emergency contact, and immediately transferred the number elsewhere upon it being restored.
  4. Spectrum routing is shit
  5. Wireless can be as good (or even better) than wired in ideal conditions (see 1), my current 1Gbps plan also only costs $20/month.
[–] kuiskaaja@lemmy.ml 3 points 1 month ago (2 children)

telecom operators in america can terminate your service if you use the wrong phone? wtf?

[–] stardreamer@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 points 1 month ago (1 children)

They were checking against a whitelist of IMEIs to force people to migrate to 5G phones. While my new phone was 5G, it was acquired internationally and thus not on the whitelist. So as soon as it got on the network, the line got terminated.

[–] kuiskaaja@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 month ago

that's nuts. you're not allowed to use 4g dumb phones???

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