[jcims]

It’s also surprisingly reliable given the physics of it all. I built a house out in the country in 2007 and 10Mbps DSL was all that was available for terrestrial connectivity up until literally yesterday.

The DSL would go down for hours a couple of times per month. I got on an early starlink pilot program and had a dish up in early 2021. Aside from momentary blips on the leading edge of a stormfront and occasional network issues a couple of times per year, it’s been rock solid with half the latency and 20x the bandwidth.

[bookofjoe]

This reminds me of Steve Wozniak's nightmarish prolonged battle to be allowed to personally pay for broadband to his just purchased house.

>Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak: I don't have broadband at home [2012]

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/us-news-blog/2012/may...

[bookofjoe]

Addendum: He later remarked that in the future the first thing he'd ask about a prospective home is whether or not it has broadband.