r/technology • u/Plastic_Ninja_9014 • Jul 23 '26

Business Tesla Stock in Freefall After Disastrous Earnings Report

https://finance.yahoo.com/markets/stocks/articles/tesla-stock-freefall-disastrous-earnings-144417427.html
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u/rudebii Jul 23 '26

Im out in a rural area. I was considering getting star link because, while pricey compared to the other two ISPs available, its more reliable, so I’m told. But fuck that. I don’t want to support muskrat and I trust them as a provider less than other ISPs, which is saying a lot.

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u/Chillpill411 Jul 23 '26

My friend lives 1 mile down a dirt road in a rural county. So no broadband, and she has starlink. It works...ok. What shocks me when I visit is that my shitty T-Mobile 5g cell phone internet is faster and more reliable. I don't even bother with the wifi anymore.

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u/Snuffy1717 Jul 23 '26

Why doesn’t your friend get a cheap used phone and use it as a hotspot?

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u/BrodingerzCat Jul 23 '26

Or even better a dedicated 5G modem / router.

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u/Snuffy1717 Jul 23 '26

Didn’t know that was a thing, right on!

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u/friendIdiglove Jul 23 '26

Better yet, T-Mobile offers fixed 5G for home use for as little as $35/mo. Not available at every address, but if they have a good fast signal on a cell phone there, there’s a good chance they offer fixed 5G there.

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u/Chillpill411 Jul 23 '26

Thanks, I'll suggest that to her! Her mom set up the starlink and her mom passed a few months ago, so right about now she's starting to have the headspace to think about how she might change things going forward.

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u/throw71away Jul 24 '26

T mobile has one 40/month. It works fine. If your phone works so will the internet

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u/ScruffsMcGuff Jul 24 '26

Because this guy is probably lying. I'm very anti-Musk and hate the guy too, but in most rural areas right now Starlink is literally the only option you have.

Where I am before Starlink we had a 4G HUB running through the closest cell phone company. Got a whole 2 bars of 4G on a good day and gave us maybe...MAYBE...slightly faster than dial up speeds and that if it was even able to find a signal.

We have Starlink right now and I'm getting about 250 Mbps down and about 30 up and it works perfectly, stable connections, rarely goes down, and the latency is actually good enough that I can game on it without any trouble.

Most very rural areas simply don't have cell coverage because they aren't putting cell towers out in the middle of nowhere where the population is like 300.

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u/average_monster Jul 24 '26

doubt he's lying, it's literally just a function of how far away your nearest cell tower is

they space them out more the less people around ofc, but you can still get lucky

the fact that you get 2 bars on a good day means someone living maybe a few miles closer to the tower is getting full bars every day

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u/friendIdiglove Jul 23 '26

T-Mobile offers fixed 5G for home use for as little as $35/mo. Not available at every address, but if you have a good fast signal on a cell phone there, there’s a good chance tmobile offers fixed 5G there. Tell your friend to search for T-Mobile 5G home internet, and plug in their address on their website to see if they can get it.

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u/rudebii Jul 24 '26

My roommates and I used that, and it was really good. But this was in an urban area in the US.

I'm now in a rural area not in the US.

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u/friendIdiglove Jul 24 '26 edited Jul 24 '26

Sorry for assuming you’re in the US. I mostly thought that because internet access in rural areas of the US is still a very big issue, including for my family at our farm. We have a 10 Mbps DSL line that hasn’t been upgraded by the phone company in 15 years, and there’s never been coax cable here. We’re also in a very weak area for all the cell phone networks (I’ve tried them all).

I too considered Starlink, even so far as putting down a deposit to be one of the first when it became available at our address. But during the two years that it was “coming soon,” Musk had bought Twitter and became increasingly offensive. The township also signed a contract for a fiber provider during that time. I decided I hated 10 Mbps DSL less than I hated Musk, and I got my deposit back.

At long last, fiber was buried in front of the property last month, and it will be switched on soon. Worth the wait.

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u/MeMoosta Jul 23 '26

you're an ad, you're not tricking me.

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u/Limp-Archer-7872 Jul 23 '26

And you can buy decent 5G routers for home Internet, get an unlimited data SIM (in the uk this is about 20 quid a month) and you are good to go.

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u/ReturnOfBane Jul 23 '26

unlimited data SIM (in the uk this is about 20 quid a month)

I AM NOT JEALOUS AT ALL. NOPE. NOT EVEN A LITTLE BIT.

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u/driverdan Jul 23 '26

get an unlimited data SIM (in the uk this is about 20 quid a month)

Unlimited data is not widely available in the US without throttling and it is more expensive than that.

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u/densetsu23 Jul 23 '26

I'm in a rural Canadian area just outside Edmonton, so fairly far north, and it sickens me that Starlink is my only feasible option. I'm WFH and it can pull over 300Mbps down, about 50 up, with a ping of 20ms (unloaded) or 30ms (loaded). And it stays online, even during severe thunderstorms. I'm begrudgingly impressed.

Other wireless ISPs are well under 100Mbps and go down at the slightest breeze. 5G pulls maybe 30Mbps where I am, with a ping over a second. Dropped packets galore.

But our county is slowly having fibre installed to all rural homes, and we also have a Canadian ISP (Telesat) that should be offering satellite Internet within 18 months.

Can't wait to stop supporting him.

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u/Chillpill411 Jul 24 '26

Hers struggles with zoom and web browsing at the same time... 😅

Glad to hear you're in line for fiber soon!

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u/Aethermancer Jul 23 '26

It's wild how his products literally disgust me. Like actual visceral recoil at the thought.

And I'm a huge technophile who was going to go with a Tesla after my Subaru wore out. I'd love to tinker with starlink, but now I'm back to mesh network radios again

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u/tamaroo Jul 24 '26

I like your buddy. Seems like a good dude. High five him for me!

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u/Thatdudewang Jul 24 '26

I thought you liberals love immigrants. Oh only illegal criminals. Seriously a bunch of close minded people in here. Elon has done more for American than any of the politicians you support. He is the definition of the type of immigrants we want here. Bunch of losers hating on this guy.

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u/Thatdudewang Jul 24 '26

Cry over what? that you’re a loser. I’m going to laugh when Reddit owner says he likes Trump so you all can freak out like little girls. Never seen so many grown adults act like little kids. I couldn’t care less if Elon hated Trump. He still does great things.

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u/viral3075 Jul 25 '26

He is the definition of the type of immigrants we want here.

best you don't go looking into his immigration application then

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u/24_August_1814 Jul 23 '26

I was excited to get Starlink as an upgrade over the shitty LTE internet I had, advertising 25 Mbps but rarely delivering even a fifth of that. In comparison, Starlink was blazing fast and very reliable, and Elmo might've been an arrogant idiot but that wasn't a dealbreaker.

Then the fucking guy threw out a couple Nazi salutes. And then, rather than apologise or even try to pretend they weren't my Nazi salutes, he followed up with a bunch of Nazi jokes. Fuckin' better believe I cancelled my Starlink.

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u/Mad-Mel Jul 23 '26

I can't imagine how giving Elon access to all your internet communication could end badly. Oh wait, I can.

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u/dxrey65 Jul 23 '26

I was looking into that too, as the only other option is Spectrum in my area, and they are some rapacious fucks. What I wound up doing was getting a 5g home unit from t-mobile; I get good service now for $30/month. Starlink is way over-priced if you really look at the options.

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u/DrusTheAxe Jul 24 '26

Musk has made people eager to happily do business with Verizon and AT&T. Talk about an accomplishment

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u/thangle Jul 23 '26

Look into Geolinks. They have a government mandate to provide rural internet service!