<story><title>Starlink internet is going from rural savior to unreliable luxury</title><url>https://www.xda-developers.com/starlink-internet-rural-savior-unreliable-luxury/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>tedk-42</author><text>All these talks about Starlink -&amp;gt; Remember it&amp;#x27;s a bandaid solution to your governments poor planning and infrastructure rollout of a core utility &amp;#x2F; service.&lt;p&gt;I say this as an Australian who watched one government plan a national rollout of fibre while another came in justifying most people don&amp;#x27;t need a connection better than 25&amp;#x2F;5 (based on usage data at the time) and went ahead and gutted the project.&lt;p&gt;We&amp;#x27;re now trying to undo the previous government&amp;#x27;s mess up of the original roll out post COVID world when everyone discovered remote work is a good idea for many.&lt;p&gt;Starlink&amp;#x27;s issue feels like history repeating itself with any service that becomes popular and goes too quickly into high demand</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>davidy123</author><text>Yes. I am in rural(ish) Canada. A community got together and with regional and national funding created &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;fibreargenteuil.ca&amp;#x2F;en&amp;#x2F;&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;fibreargenteuil.ca&amp;#x2F;en&amp;#x2F;&lt;/a&gt;
It was intense, they had to fight, sometimes publicly, tooth and nail with the utility pole controllers. But I&amp;#x27;m typing this from fast, reliable (knock the nearest of many trees) fibre internet with very reasonable (all things considered, though I wish they had a more basic tier for down and out folks) pricing.&lt;p&gt;I follow a few rural internet groups, at first most members thought Starlink would be all they&amp;#x27;d ever need, now they are very unhappy.</text></comment>
<story><title>Starlink internet is going from rural savior to unreliable luxury</title><url>https://www.xda-developers.com/starlink-internet-rural-savior-unreliable-luxury/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>tedk-42</author><text>All these talks about Starlink -&amp;gt; Remember it&amp;#x27;s a bandaid solution to your governments poor planning and infrastructure rollout of a core utility &amp;#x2F; service.&lt;p&gt;I say this as an Australian who watched one government plan a national rollout of fibre while another came in justifying most people don&amp;#x27;t need a connection better than 25&amp;#x2F;5 (based on usage data at the time) and went ahead and gutted the project.&lt;p&gt;We&amp;#x27;re now trying to undo the previous government&amp;#x27;s mess up of the original roll out post COVID world when everyone discovered remote work is a good idea for many.&lt;p&gt;Starlink&amp;#x27;s issue feels like history repeating itself with any service that becomes popular and goes too quickly into high demand</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>crispinb</author><text>&amp;gt; it&amp;#x27;s a bandaid solution to your governments poor planning and infrastructure rollout  ..&lt;p&gt;Well yes, but a needed bandaid. That&amp;#x27;s what happens when governments vacate their role - individuals are left to manage on their own (and the devil take the hindmost).&lt;p&gt;Australian here like you. Generally appalled by the NBN debacle. Starlink&amp;#x27;s beyond my means, but if I had a remote job I&amp;#x27;d find it a godsend where I live (rural Northern Rivers). Our &amp;quot;NBN&amp;quot; is SkyMuster, which is from all accounts not up to much (even if you can get the NBN to connect it).</text></comment>