There's a Starlink waiting in the sky -- it may not blow your mind though

Elon Musk's Starlink is a project aimed at delivering fast broadband via satellite to rural areas left behind by fiber rollouts. But research from Ookla, the company behind Speedtest.net, suggests that its performance is somewhat variable, much faster than fixed broadband in some areas but a lot slower in others. Using data from Speedtest Intelligence it finds that during the first quarter of this year, median download speeds from Starlink in the US ranged from 40.36 Mbps in Columbia County, Oregon, to 93.09 Mbps in Shasta County, California. In some cases these represent a dramatic improvement over other fixed broadband… [Continue Reading]