2mo ago

StarLink reportedly down world wide

Just a moment...

Thursday July 24th

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Bizarre that there’s a single point of failure for the entire network.
- this from the man who thinks microservices represent bloat and you can just turn them off
  
  I wonder if that was the root cause
- I haven't seen any news yet on a cause, but honestly with this last week my first thought was that Elon put Grok in charge of the network infrastructure, and well...Grok went oops. And then like any good LLM, lied about what happened.
I want an alternative, i am tired of giving money to musk...
- ~~T-Mobile just launched a competitor service yesterday.~~
  And, very quickly retracting that. Their service piggybacks off of Starlink. I misremembered the original article I read.
  
  T-Mobile doesn't exist in Spain, right?
- Look at Wisp providers
  
  They are really bad, i need good internet because i work from home (and for other things).
This is what industry professionals call a "whoopsie".
It would be a tragedy if it never came back up
- I only care because Ukrainians on the front line rely on it.
  
  Im curious if the Russians do too
I know this may not be the right place. But I am thinking about getting Hughes.net. Has anyone used it, and if so were you happy with the service?
My internet usage is steaming, work VPN and watch tv stuff like that.

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