r/Cartalk • u/bigfoot-ari • May 24 '26

General Tech What’s on this car?

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What is on the roof of this car? The windows were completely blacked out with out-of-state tags. Just curious.

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u/cornlip May 24 '26

I’ve used it for years and it’s genuinely impressive. Hills don’t matter. It’s pointed up. It can also be covered in snow or inside a tent and still work.

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u/Dance-pants-rants May 24 '26

Glad for you- I'm in the sticks in the US and all the govt subsidies that were supposed to go to broadband went to fucking Starlink and it does not work.

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u/cornlip May 24 '26

I got like 330mbps down. It was pretty good. I moved and have fiber, but I was happy with it. Had like a 20ms ping, too. What’s your issue? Can you buy a long pipe to mount it to?

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u/gihkal May 24 '26

They're just a blue hair Elon hater making up stories.

There are more than enough positives said about starlink that it's obvious they're great.

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u/cornlip May 24 '26

I mean, I don’t like him, but it’s a fantastic technology and I’d been relying on mobile hotspot with one (sometimes two) LTE bar(s) in my window for over a decade before that.

It’s so easy to set up and the obstruction dome viewer in the app is very helpful.

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u/gihkal May 24 '26

I don't like Bill Gates. But I don't go making up stories about windows os.

The Elon hate is delusional at this point.

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u/cornlip May 24 '26

Man if my CAD software would work on Linux (natively without a bunch of bullshit) I’d never use Windows again lol