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this was nothing that some Ethernet and some APs couldn't fix. and as for the cellular issues, you're literally the White House. Throw up a femtocell, you already have fiber for backhaul.

this is such fucking nonsense. Starlink is fixing precisely none of this.

I worked it some shitty old bunkers that no one cared about and they had wifi and cell service in every room. But the white house doesn't That's fucking hysterical

Amazing how the but her emails crowd is fine with all the private servers and now private internet access from Trump and co

depending on how badly Starlink fucks up the deployment, this could actually make the performance worse especially if airtime and spectrum are limited which I would assume would be the case. Elon throwing APs every which way isn't likely to make that any better.

this is like getting a flat tire on your handcart and buying a G Wagon with no wheels to fix it.

This country was destroyed under Reagan. We needed a national security strategy against the capitalists back then and instead invited them into the government.

This is just the fire sale, the vultures picking the well rotted corpse clean. Reagan and Welch destroyed this place, don't give Trump that much credit. He's just an opportunist who saw profit in chaos.

The United States 1776-1980 - Died of thirst waiting for Promised Golden Showers of Prosperity that never came - Useful Idiots

Not to worry, "some cited security concerns." We're all set

The corruption is clear, obvious, and blatant. Everyone knows about it, but there’s not a whole lot they can do. A good chunk of our citizens picked it on purpose.

Yeah, this doesn't make sense to me. Starlink needs a dish that has to be outside without trees covering it, so it isn't like they can place new routers around the building that receive Starlink and have wifi capability. They will still have to run a cable from the dish(es?) to new wireless routers. How is that ANY different from just running new wireless routers from their existing fiber?

I wholeheartedly agree.

However, it's hard to say that AT&T, Comcast, Cox and the like aren't all doing the same thing.

I recently bought a van and am planning on road tripping while working. I had assumed that I would get starlink so I could work pretty much anywhere.

That is dead and I guess I'll have to make sure I'm within range of a cell tower on working days.

Imagine how galling this must be for Jeff Bezos. He's put so much effort into his Bond villain persona. The guy even now looks like Dr Evil. But he's being out eviled by a pudgy, dorky-looking South African nepo-baby.

"Minus the genius and charisma"

You're describing an Austin Powers villain.

Network infrastructure is a science and we don't need no damn science in this country!

Also how did they let that excuse get past the technical teams who should be implementing this? They added Star Link to the data center that supports the White House and then have traffic run through hard wires. This does absolutely nothing to improve spots with bad WiFi.

I can believe areas of the White House have no cell service, on purpose. Remember when they found those fake cell towers around DC?

https://www.wired.com/story/dcs-stingray-dhs-surveillance/

I bet at some point they installed some cell phone jammers specifically to limit the amount of foreign spying that could be done by fake towers, and they simply "forgot" to tell the incoming Trump administration....

We're only a couple of months into this administration. We're super duper fucked.