Courtesy of Alex Lockie This story is available exclusively to Insider subscribers. Become an Insider and start reading now. Contributor Alex Lockie bought a home in southern Vermont, where it's tough to find good internet. He tried Starlink's Better Than Nothing beta program, the satellite-internet service from Elon Musk. Lockie says it's worthy of the hype, but he'd switch to a wired internet connection in a heartbeat. When I stumbled across my dream house, in the hills of southern Vermont, during a bout of pandemic-induced online house shopping, I knew I wouldn't get great internet there. The home had no good cellphone service, no fiber-optic cables, and no wired internet available besides a 3-megabits-per-second (Mbps) DSL connection from a local phone company.