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Starlink and 5G home internet are helping close the digital divide, but they're far from perfect
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Starlink and 5G home internet are helping close the digital divide, but they're far from perfect.
Key facts
- CenturyLink promised, but notably did not guarantee, up to 20 Mbps down and a staggering 1.5 Mbps up
- Where they live, T-Mobile’s 5G internet service delivers near-gigabit download speeds and uplink speeds ranging from 30–40 Mbps
- SD-WAN was developed in the early 2010s to solve a specific problem: as SaaS apps like Office 365, Salesforce, and Google Apps took off, more and more enterprise traffic was going out to the internet
- Between T-Mobile and Starlink, they're spending around $125 a month to get online
Summary
This spring, their wife and colleagues moved from the Denver suburbs into the Colorado Rockies. Before their time at El Reg, the reporter, among other things, breathlessly covered a subset of the networking industry, which as it happens had become big business following the COVID-19 outbreak and the pandemic that followed. Little did the reporter knows, a mere six years later, this technology would become essential to their wife and me. Had it not been for 5G and Starlink, the move might as well have been time travel.