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UnSubRocky Gold Member Offline Crocodile Hunter: Origins Posts: 25301 Rockhampton Gender:	Re: Starlink Reply #15 - Jul 16^th, 2023 at 6:54pm You are doing 200Mbps download. But, for what? It is like having a car that can do 200km/h easily, but the speed limit says 110km at most. What is the big hurry?
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Jovial Monk Gold Member Offline Dogs not cats! Posts: 51474 Gender:	Re: Starlink Reply #16 - Jul 16^th, 2023 at 9:13pm I down and upload quite a bit of stuff.
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UnSubRocky Gold Member Offline Crocodile Hunter: Origins Posts: 25301 Rockhampton Gender:	Re: Starlink Reply #17 - Jul 16^th, 2023 at 10:05pm Jovial Monk wrote on Jul 16^th, 2023 at 9:13pm: I down and upload quite a bit of stuff. Large files like gigabytes worth? Downloading movies?
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Jovial Monk Gold Member Offline Dogs not cats! Posts: 51474 Gender:	Re: Starlink Reply #18 - Jul 17^th, 2023 at 6:47am Other stuff but I buy the odd movie.
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Jovial Monk Gold Member Offline Dogs not cats! Posts: 51474 Gender:	Re: Starlink Reply #19 - Jul 25^th, 2023 at 10:28am The starlink speed, over 200:20 is real. As a test, while a YouTube of Mozart was playing I launched YouTube in another tab I downloaded and watched a video and it seemed to download and play at normal speed so the Starlink bandwidth is real.
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UnSubRocky Gold Member Offline Crocodile Hunter: Origins Posts: 25301 Rockhampton Gender:	Re: Starlink Reply #20 - Jul 25^th, 2023 at 2:30pm I launched about 10 youtube videos of the same "Bohemian Rhapsody" song to make an echoing orchestral sound of the song. My computer could play all of the videos with no problem with my Telstra ADSL connection. You don't need a super fast connection to do that.
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Jovial Monk Gold Member Offline Dogs not cats! Posts: 51474 Gender:	Re: Starlink Reply #21 - Jul 25^th, 2023 at 3:47pm I couldn’t do it with my ADSL. It wasn’t that my needs are huge, it was the service that was too slow, especially the upload. My yankee home brew buddies must have gigabit download, looking at the specs for their up/download. But Spacelink will do so far.
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Re: Starlink
Reply #22 - Aug 29^th, 2023 at 9:41pm

Jovial Monk wrote on Jul 16^th, 2023 at 7:23am:

$135/month

Most of the past I couldn't get even 1mbps and it cost about $80 American so I dropped it and finally just tethered my phone for WiFi. Now I have 5G and pay $50 per month all taxes and fees included plus AppleTV+ for free at 200mbps down and about 35 up. Nothing was available until about two years ago except the old phone line internet. I would definitely consider Starlink if none of my new options were unavailable.

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Re: Starlink
Reply #23 - Aug 29^th, 2023 at 10:58pm

I like it still.

Mind you, Friday the receiver got moved and fixed to the roof. The receiver should point to the south in the Southern Hemisphere but I noticed on Saturday morning it was pointing north and the Jitsi chat that afternoon was full of stops and me getting tossed out the chat.

It has now worked out where it should be pointing and is back to 250/25.

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Jovial Monk Gold Member Offline Dogs not cats! Posts: 51474 Gender:	Re: Starlink Reply #24 - Sep 13^th, 2023 at 11:00am You do get interruptions occasionally—I had to tether the computer to my phone. Took the dog for a 10 minute walk to the PO and back, Starlink working again.
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Setanta Gold Member Offline \/ Peace man! Posts: 17352 Northern NSW Gender:	Re: Starlink Reply #25 - Sep 26^th, 2023 at 7:04pm Finally the NBN we should have had 5 years ago. Free flip to fibre here.
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Re: Starlink
Reply #26 - Sep 26^th, 2023 at 7:22pm

UnSubRocky wrote on Jul 25^th, 2023 at 2:30pm:

I launched about 10 youtube videos of the same "Bohemian Rhapsody" song to make an echoing orchestral sound of the song. My computer could play all of the videos with no problem with my Telstra ADSL connection. You don't need a super fast connection to do that.

That's because they all shared the same buffered download. You DLed once and played it 10 times, not a bandwidth test by any means. Play 10 different videos at once all started at the same time.

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Setanta Gold Member Offline \/ Peace man! Posts: 17352 Northern NSW Gender:	Re: Starlink Reply #27 - Oct 27^th, 2023 at 7:10pm New 24h speed boost available. Gotta test that.
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Setanta Gold Member Offline \/ Peace man! Posts: 17352 Northern NSW Gender:	Re: Starlink Reply #28 - Oct 27^th, 2023 at 7:21pm Before 250Mbs
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Setanta Gold Member Offline \/ Peace man! Posts: 17352 Northern NSW Gender:	Re: Starlink Reply #29 - Oct 27^th, 2023 at 7:21pm After
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