• someguy3@lemmy.world
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    13 hours ago

    So if you’re out on a farm, what’s the best option for Internet? Is 3g an option? (Either unlimited or a very large amount) Any line of sight service good?

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      5 hours ago

      If you’re out on a farm, you fit the intended use case for starlink.

      The issue is that all them city folk see starlink as a way of escaping the locked in municipal ISPs. So they clog up satellite bandwidth when they have fibre/5G/HFC/wireless/xDSL options literally at their front door.

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      7 hours ago

      Biden’s broadband equity program earmarked over $42MM to expand broadband; past admins were incentivizing telecom to take action, but lo and behold, doge slashed a gutted to move funding toward starlink.

      Is there any source of high speed internet? You could look into a community mesh network.

      • empireOfLove2@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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        12 hours ago

        You would be very surprised how many rural areas have barely-working cellular networks that are unreliable and not fast enough for usable data.