Cory Doctorow on Nostr: Satellite can make sense for an RV or a boat or remote scientific station. But ...
Satellite can make sense for an RV or a boat or remote scientific station.
But wireless services are *orders of magnitude* slower than fiber. With satellite service, you share your bandwidth with an entire region or even a state. If there's only a couple of users in your satellite's footprint, you might get great service, but when your carrier adds a thousand more customers, your connection is sliced into a thousand pieces.
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