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<font face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif">For those of you who are
stuck on dial-up or expensive satellite or even slow DSL, Elon
Musk's (Tesla, SpaceX) company Starlink is planning to start
opening their satellite internet up for beta testers by late
summer/early fall and general availability soon after. <br>
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Starlink is different than HughesNet and Viasat in two ways -
their satellites are in much lower orbit and there will be many
more of them, so the latency (time between when you click the
button and when things happen) is the same or quicker than cable.
Their upload/download speed and pricing should also be comparable
to cable as well, although no numbers have been released yet. <br>
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They will have an antenna described as "a large pizza box on a
stick" that will automatically align itself to point to
satellites, and they say setup should be as simple as attach the
receiver to your deck railing or house where it has a view of the
sky, plug it into your router/computer, plug it into the wall
socket, let it align and you're set. <br>
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If you're interested, you can sign up to get updates and to
possibly get to be a beta tester here:<br>
</font><font face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif"><a
href="https://www.starlink.com/">https://www.starlink.com/</a><br>
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Sam<br>
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Sam McClellan<br>
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