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SpenB t1_jae5mho wrote

Reply to comment by Story_Deep in Dish network has been down since Thursday and they cannot recover by ahistoryofmistakes

Elon is using a $2,500 base station, and $120/month service, for something that can handle one or two HD streams.

Dish is using like $500 of hardware and charging $80/month.

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Story_Deep t1_jae82ae wrote

Starlink offers a$500 system that provides 50mbs, far better than the 5mbs offered by dish. The price you quoted is for 500mbs, faster than my cable connection in a large city. Either plan is more than enough for the entire family to stream.

It's fine to hate, just hate for legit reasons.

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SpenB t1_jaebufv wrote

I'm only seeing one residential plan for Starlink, at $110/month. Supposedly 100 Mbps but from what I've heard network congestion has made it far lower.

They're selling the system for $500 but it costs them more than $2000 to build.

Satellite TV sucks but it'll be the only option for super-rural areas for a while.

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