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General Discussion Area / Re: Word Association.
« on: 15 April 2024, 14:53:17 »
Man
Welcome to OOF
The world now feels at least as dangerous as it did at the height of the cold war.
Selling the family silver omega
I had 3 Carltons once , turns out you can only drive one car at a time
so having a spare spare spare car is probably overkill
unless they're FORDS or French
Recently went down from two cars in the house to just one. A second car just doesn't get used. I need to reinvent myself as some kind of boy racer
We too live in the countryside but Spain. No chance of copper or fibre ever..
Our choice is 4G or 5G ( when available) The 5G will have roughly the same footprint as 4G . At max 20 meg 4 G works for TV streaming until “ rush hour” . Schools in/ out, work finishes, adverts on popular programmes etc etc. Up is 700k so useless for video conferencing.
Spain has a programme to enable everyone to get fast internet. We get HispaSat internet. 100 meg down and 7 meg up for 35 euros a month - Free install. It works great for tv streaming but has a big ping so no good for interactive internet gaming. We are currently waiting for technician to visit to give us a free speed upgrade.
Our install is a 90 cm dish facing South East , cable to a good quality router
Similar technology to Starlink. Starlink have offers . Look out for one……..
Nothing like Starlink, totally different tech, HispaSat is Geo tech, Starlink is LEO.
Hence you get horrific latency as the round trip delay can be half a second and with bandwidth levelling up to a second.
LEOs are so much closer that the latency is not that different to cellular