Because my other connection is a 25/3 WISP link that mostly doesn't. I generally see about 5/1 in the evenings, if that.
I've had several area WISP connections, as there's no wired infrastructure to my area, and they vary in quality. I work full time remote, so I need two connections as a general habit - I can work with one, but when that one is down for a week straight, I have problems. I like being able to fail over.
I typically keep one connection for "interactive" traffic, and one for "bulk transfer/failover" - things like my local Ubuntu repo mirror, offsite backup traffic, etc. And I can fail to it if needed, which I do often enough.
On a good day, Starlink is far better than my WISP connection, and I have some machines routed out it persistently. On a bad day, I can't hit much from it, because that particular public IP has been blocked from large parts of the internet. It's very hit and miss, and overall bandwidth has definitely dropped from the early days, though reliability of getting packets where they need to go is drastically improved.
I've had several area WISP connections, as there's no wired infrastructure to my area, and they vary in quality. I work full time remote, so I need two connections as a general habit - I can work with one, but when that one is down for a week straight, I have problems. I like being able to fail over.
I typically keep one connection for "interactive" traffic, and one for "bulk transfer/failover" - things like my local Ubuntu repo mirror, offsite backup traffic, etc. And I can fail to it if needed, which I do often enough.
On a good day, Starlink is far better than my WISP connection, and I have some machines routed out it persistently. On a bad day, I can't hit much from it, because that particular public IP has been blocked from large parts of the internet. It's very hit and miss, and overall bandwidth has definitely dropped from the early days, though reliability of getting packets where they need to go is drastically improved.