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by tallowen 881 days ago
My experience living in Montana has been that wireless internet providers can be great but they don’t provide great low latency service. It creates a perception that one can’t live in certain areas and do remote work since it’s too hard to do video.

When it comes to broadband there is a question of “how good is good enough” but for the people living in Hamilton Montana (population 5k) I hope there can be a path to infrastructure investment that leads to high quality internet in town.

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Wireless internet should be low latency (unless you're talking about geosynchronous satellite).

During high demand, our local WISP has 1 second latency to the internet because their wired backhaul link is terrible. It's less than 1ms to the tower. Starlink to the internet is in the 20-30ms range, and it's bouncing into orbit and back.