From: le@main.lekno.ws   
      
   Tommie Hicks  wrote:   
   >   
   >> I have no idea what Tesla has to do with telephony. Is that a satellite   
   >> phone?   
   >>   
   >> How are you communicating, DSL?   
   >   
   > From what I understand the Tesla phone will use the Starlink i   
   frastructure.  The cheapest one is $1,000.   
   >   
   > After begging for DSL from the phone company for two decades I gave up.  In   
   > 2010 the U.S. Goverment gave the phone company $96,000 to run fiber up our   
   > road but it never materialized.   
      
   I wonder what it cost Verizon to run the 96-strand fiber cable   
   down my driveway of which 94 strands are still unused.   
      
   > My landline was so decrepit that it would not allow the operation of an   
   > internet browser.   
      
   Of what type?...what bandwidth connection was on your twisted pair?   
      
   > I had to use Hughesnet since about 2017.  They promised 2.5   
   > gigabytes a second and never delivered on it.  The last four years or so   
   > Hughesnet was giving me 14.5 kilobytes a second, nearly 1/4 of dial up speeds   
   > for $88 a month.  But I had to keep it for at least I could maintain an   
   > e-mail account and browse websites with no videos.  Last October, after 2   
   > years on a waiting list I was able to get Starlink.  The difference was   
   > phenomenal.  On Hughesnet I was unable to watch videos, but with Starlink I   
   > can run six tabs of youtube videos flawlessly.  Hughesnet made it extremely   
   > difficult to sever with them.  They made an unauthorized $700 charge on my   
   > credit card which they said was a deposit on the Lna and reciever which they   
   > had explicitly said in our contract that those items would be my property if   
   > I flawlessly maintained the account for 4 years.  I just received the $700   
   > back two weeks ago, several months after I sent them the equipment.   
   > Hughesnet would not terminate may account until they received the gear so I   
   > paid for two months of service, a month and a half after they received the   
   > equipment.  Gad what a nightmare.   
      
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