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kleinbl00  ·  3513 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: One Year Update on the Island We Bought

Whelp,there's islands and there's islands. If you have line-of-sight to the shore, you can do tightbeam or drop a cable. If you don't, you can go iridium, which you certainly aren't watching Netflix over. The island refugee found would be pretty easy to get internet on, comparatively.

Then there's this guy I talked to on Reddit a few years back. He's out on Easter Island. There aren't even any satellites in the sky over him. And if he wants to drop a cable, it's 4,000 miles to Chile. So the whole damn island shares a dial-up connection.