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Worked in tech support for a satellite based Internet company that oversold its bandwidth on one of the satellites.
We told customers on that beam we were working on it. The actual solution was attrition. Eventually enough customers would quit that service would be better for those that remained.
This was a decade ago, but when my mom signed up for Dish Network I asked the installer about getting the internet package. He laughed and said to avoid it like the plague. The guy claimed that at the time Direct Tv and Dish Network used the same satellites for internet, two of them to be exact. The rates for using the service went up with high server load and it was only really usable after midnight.
I ended up building a Cantenna from two Bush's Baked Beans cans and $15 worth of radio equipment from radio shack and "borrowing" free Wi-Fi from a mansion about a mile away.
Starlink must be getting like that in some places. The further away from civilization you are, the better the service. Use it in the footprint of a city and you'll probably regret it.
Did you guys sell to the US Midwest? My parents tried a satellite service and it went quickly from the best option available to them absolute trash. They switched back to their <1 mbps local ISP after a few months.
this was almost twenty years ago.
Ah, too long ago then.