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Jovial Monk Gold Member Offline Dogs not cats! Posts: 51474 Gender:	Starlink Jun 25^th, 2023 at 11:06pm I was very unhappy with NBN Satellite. Telstra ADSL is pathetic and they are making no effort to improves it. So I am thinking of signing on to Starlink. Bandwidth of 90-250Mbps sounds OK to me! Comment?
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Lisa Jones Gold Member Offline Australian Politics Posts: 39047 Sydney Gender:	Re: Starlink Reply #1 - Jun 25^th, 2023 at 11:19pm Jovial Monk wrote on Jun 25^th, 2023 at 11:06pm: I was very unhappy with NBN Satellite. Telstra ADSL is pathetic and they are making no effort to improves it. So I am thinking of signing on to Starlink. Bandwidth of 90-250Mbps sounds OK to me! Comment? Will you be paying for this service using the $60 you stole from Aussie?
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Re: Starlink
Reply #2 - Jun 26^th, 2023 at 12:19am

I got Starlink a week ago. I live in a rural area and my fixed wireless that was reasonable a few years ago has got ever slower and less reliable as more people come on the network. Add this to the fact that Telstra (the only real option I had in my area) are putting up their prices made me decide to bite the bullet and take advantage of the Starlink rural discount of $199 as opposed to the usual $900 start up cost.

So far it has been excellent. Speed tests have shown a marked improvement - Telstra down 74, up 9 ping 77. Starlink down 148 up 11 ping 39. The difference has been very noticeable. No trouble with this forum for example where I used to have issues before.

I will give it another week or two to make sure all is in order then I will ditch Telstra altogether.

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Jovial Monk Gold Member Offline Dogs not cats! Posts: 51474 Gender:	Re: Starlink Reply #3 - Jun 26^th, 2023 at 5:11am Cool, nice to hear! I live in a small township, satellite is the only NBN option. This is cruel, saving a bit of money and reducing bandwidth and data allowance for truly isolated homes! ADSL was like 13:1. Only good thing—unlimited data whereas I used up the satellite data allowance in 2 weeks!
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Jovial Monk Gold Member Offline Dogs not cats! Posts: 51474 Gender:	Re: Starlink Reply #4 - Jun 26^th, 2023 at 3:46pm OK, placed the order for Starlink. Decent internet at last!
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John Smith Gold Member Offline Australian Politics Posts: 78311 Gender:	Re: Starlink Reply #5 - Jun 26^th, 2023 at 4:23pm I've got a few customers who've joined up to it now. They seem to like it.
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Jovial Monk Gold Member Offline Dogs not cats! Posts: 51474 Gender:	Re: Starlink Reply #6 - Jun 26^th, 2023 at 5:23pm Cool! It is $50/month dearer than Telstra ADSL but it looks like real internet.
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UnSubRocky Gold Member Offline Crocodile Hunter: Origins Posts: 25301 Rockhampton Gender:	Re: Starlink Reply #7 - Jun 28^th, 2023 at 12:04am Are you that pressed for time? My download speed is 27.6 Mbps. The upload 4.79 Mbps. I can multitask many programs and internet pages just with that amount of download speed.
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Jovial Monk Gold Member Offline Dogs not cats! Posts: 51474 Gender:	Re: Starlink Reply #8 - Jun 28^th, 2023 at 6:30am That is rather more than I get! Your download speed is twice mine and your upload speed is WAY faster! If I got 25:5 I probably would not want to change.
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Jovial Monk Gold Member Offline Dogs not cats! Posts: 51474 Gender:	Re: Starlink Reply #9 - Jun 28^th, 2023 at 7:43am Heh, talking to NBN Co and Helstra on Twitter. NBN Co announced this big improvement of satellite: 25:5. Gees, they must think it is 1923 npot 2023!
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Jovial Monk Gold Member Offline Dogs not cats! Posts: 51474 Gender:	Re: Starlink Reply #10 - Jul 13^th, 2023 at 12:40pm I am LOVING Starlink! I get over 200Mbps down and 13–25mbps up. More upload than I used to have dowload!
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UnSubRocky Gold Member Offline Crocodile Hunter: Origins Posts: 25301 Rockhampton Gender:	Re: Starlink Reply #11 - Jul 16^th, 2023 at 5:44am How much does that cost you?
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Jovial Monk Gold Member Offline Dogs not cats! Posts: 51474 Gender:	Re: Starlink Reply #12 - Jul 16^th, 2023 at 7:23am $135/month
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UnSubRocky Gold Member Offline Crocodile Hunter: Origins Posts: 25301 Rockhampton Gender:	Re: Starlink Reply #13 - Jul 16^th, 2023 at 7:55am Jovial Monk wrote on Jul 16^th, 2023 at 7:23am: $135/month Pfft! I don't even pay that amount for home, mobile and internet expenses per month with Telstra.
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Re: Starlink
Reply #14 - Jul 16^th, 2023 at 8:16am

ADSL wasn’t fast enough, especially uploading stuff but visible delays in downloading as well. NBN Satellite data plans allowed pitifully little data to be up/downloaded.

This has a nice speed. If reliable 25:5 with unlimited data had been available I would probably not have moved. If the iPhone had been a bit faster I would likely just hang off of that but it is slow—real problems with video conferencing that I do weekly.

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