Starlink user here up at my cabin in Maine where I have a full remote job. Even in an uncontested area it’s expensive and unreliable if latency and persistent connectivity matters

And you have no recourse over how they manage the dish — for a year my dish pointed in a certain direction so we cleared trees, rented a boom lift and raised the dish to the highest point on our roofline ….

… then less than a week later starlink pushed out a east coast update that repointed dishes to a new direction causing me to go from 0% obstruction with perfect signal to 2% obstruction with brief outages every 2 minutes on average. I’m fucked until I can rent a lift and take down a different tree

And this is in semi rural Maine — your sky view and local cell is gonna much worse in any urban location

The basic deal is starlink is great ONLY if you literally have no other options. Any fixed line broadband option is going to be 100x better

I pay for a business grade Verizon FIOS circuit at my boston spot for a reason heh

Ask them for a free year or discounts if you switch over.

that's just how slow the red line is now. it's not gonna get fixed for another 20 years.

Dude what?! Starlink is over $100 PER month

May I ask, how long did you take to finish this?

I definitely needed to hear this

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Thank you!

Thanks so much!

It’s not.

Out of curiosity, why Starlink? Their LEO satellite service is generally more expensive and less consistent than Fios, so just wondering if there was a reason for the swap

How? I’m very happy with fios

They will microtrench. As in it’ll be a machine with what is effectively a saw blade.

Starlink is good for remote locations where there is no option of fiber. In dense areas it’s not as good because wireless spectrum is shared.

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I'm just going Starlink when my Verizon contract is up anyway. Also, the property is very flat and it was a huge pita getting the grade right for drainage. I'd prefer not to deal with a sagging line down the property that will just collect water

Seems pretty passive aggressive for no reason. Why be that way?

Relax dude - I referenced the exact source, which made it sound like the 5 dispatchers "on loan" were part of the 21 total, with 3 "additional" dispatchers in training. Blame the reporter for being ambiguous.

It doesn't matter if they have 5 dispatchers or 50 if they can't run a normal schedule for 3+ years. The number is irrelevant.

Imagine simping for the MBTA in 2023.

Put a No Trespassing violators will be prosecuted sign out in plain sight.

mmmm. yes. same thing.

Being frustrated that the fences around the tracks keep getting stolen and its SUPER dangerous because its also adjacent to a park and an elementary school. Being peeved at T-station bag-checks cause I don't want people looking through my bag. Being aware when the T police show up at the park next to the track and train bridge by my house. Quietly going along with everything and just making comments about it here. TOTALLY the same thing as a complete dick.

Yeah. they have a job to do. They do things. I'm not shitting on them. Im commenting about them. Things they do outside of the normal train stuff.

No, localized gravitational shift that caused a bit of damage

Lol you got caught spewing a bullshit lie and now you’re changing the subject

Yes

Cool, so we should be back to a regular schedule, right? I mean it has been over a year.

Oh we're not? And we won't be until July 2024, per the MBTA's own dashboard?

https://cdn.mbta.com/sites/default/files/2023-02/2023-02-01_sd22-6_cap6_redacted.pdf

Sorry for not giving the MBTA the benefit of the doubt, they definitely deserve it after the stellar service they've provided - a train hasn't caught fire in months! Running reduced service for only 3 years should be celebrated!

Wow, this is so beautiful.