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!


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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.

OK, placed the order for Starlink. Decent internet at last!

Cool! It is $50/month dearer than Telstra ADSL but it looks like real internet.

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.

I am LOVING Starlink!

I get over 200Mbps down and 13–25mbps up.

More upload than I used to have dowload!

$135/month

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.

I down and upload quite a bit of stuff.

Other stuff but I buy the odd movie.

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.

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



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.

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.

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


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.

Before 250Mbs

Setanta wrote on Sep 26^th, 2023 at 7:04pm:


What plan/cost?

Setanta wrote on Oct 27^th, 2023 at 8:40pm:



My net speed is embarrassing, I have a crap TPG plan, but it rarely impacts what I do.

19:30 today.

Bobby. wrote on Oct 28^th, 2023 at 7:00pm:


Yeah it's like the internet is on the same gigabit network as the house. One way of course. I've noticed that file sharing sites limit download bandwidth. The ones I usually find the fastest like mega/gofile/mediafire won't give the full bandwidth to one file. I can dl multiple files and they added on, so to speak, to the bandwidth allowed for one file. Basically I could not get anywhere near full GB from file share sites unless I did multiple files.

Gordon wrote on Oct 28^th, 2023 at 7:48pm:


Torrented debian-12.2.0-amd64-DVD-1.iso   3809M and it was roughly 1.5mins but was 300Mbps there abouts.