Path: csiph.com!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!individual.net!not-for-mail From: rbowman Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.misc Subject: Re: What's Wrong With LinuxMint ? Date: 19 Aug 2026 14:01:59 GMT Lines: 29 Message-ID: References: <1161423$1kgeu$3@dont-email.me> <_46cnQgXs593jBj3nZ2dnZfqn_SdnZ2d@giganews.com> <11649mk$2le0s$5@dont-email.me> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: individual.net eXnWXCwJaF7wT/xQJCD79A1Oe4oqbydMhzKAGP+nLeoULv5WQk Cancel-Lock: sha1:DoIU938ZQy1dcf2mvI7pMl6NXPU= sha256:PSM6JUo7EiR8TlaBXxgfRURCd8DN+gvkVHk2tD2+DKU= User-Agent: Pan/0.165 (Kostiantynivka) Xref: csiph.com comp.os.linux.misc:90137 On Wed, 19 Aug 2026 14:05:24 +0100, The Natural Philosopher wrote: > On 19/08/2026 04:32, rbowman wrote: >> On Tue, 18 Aug 2026 22:16:09 -0400, c186282 wrote: >> >>> Anyway, they took away my hardwire and gave me a 5G where the >>> antenna is many miles away. >>> Weak signal almost always, perhaps packet errors too. >> >> I had a Verizon MiFi for years and it served me well but I think the >> closest tower is 6 miles away. Youtube, streaming Netflix, and so forth >> wasn't a problem but I rarely saw 20 Mbis. StarLink is a reliable 100 >> Mbis and makes the world of difference for updates, downloading isos, >> and so forth. It's also $40 / month cheaper. > > You actually have starlink? > > Well I guess in rural USA fuck the rednecks is the average ISPs > response. I'm not too far from the center of town -- but it's a rural road with few houses although it's built up over the years. It was never worthwhile for the cable people to bother with. I don't expect to see fiber. Cell towers are also placed to serve population areas. This state is 147,000 square miles with about 1 million people. Great Britain is 80.000 square miles with 67 million people. We're not exactly cheek by jowl.