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Why is that? They have regular home offer in pretty competitive prices in the UK.




If it’s like old school satellite internet, the latency is atrocious and speeds aren’t great.

It's not. It's comparable to starlink both in speed and latency.

Coverage is smaller than Starlink, but I don't think Greenland plans to move anywhere any time soon.


But Musk free. That has huge value to some of us.

When shopping solar, installers would open with ‘we sell various brands, what are your views on Musk?’


Yeah I get that, and there’s a lot of products and services whose company values I don’t subscribe to but I still use them because the alternatives aren’t viable. If you’re OK with 1+ second latency (which makes something as simple as SSH insufferable and online gaming impossible) and 20Mbit speeds, well, good for you.

There's not much testimonials about OneWeb(Eutelsat) but they advertise sub 100ms latency and there are articles like that: https://www.ipinternational.net/oneweb-vs-starlink-head-to-h...

It's described as slightly worse than Starlink, which makes sense because the orbits are not that different to warrant 20 orders of magnitude performance difference.

Where do you get the 1s latency number?


> Where do you get the 1s latency number?

“If it’s like old school satellite internet”


If that was the scenario I was in it would be a tough call. Luckily I have a great local ISP giving 2gig fibre (Voyager!), so that ethical dilemma isn’t playing out.

The do 4gb too, but I can’t use that much, and rarely get over 1gb.




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