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#2836311 21-Dec-2021 13:08

Interesting blog from speedtest.net says

New Zealand: Starlink slowed slightly, remained faster than fixed broadband average

With the Chorus fibre upgrades to 300Mbps, it will be interesting to see the Q4 results

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#2836884 22-Dec-2021 14:25

But you know no one with starlink has medial download speeds on broadband....

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#2836886 22-Dec-2021 14:29

RobDickinson:

But you know no one with starlink has medial download speeds on broadband....

Doesn't take much to beat the 8/0.5 speeds I had before😁

Sure they are quite spikey on Starlink, but I'm very happy now... https://starlinkstatus.space/stations/296

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#2837060 22-Dec-2021 20:29

andypen:
RobDickinson:

But you know no one with starlink has medial download speeds on broadband....

Doesn't take much to beat the 8/0.5 speeds I had before😁

Sure they are quite spikey on Starlink, but I'm very happy now... https://starlinkstatus.space/stations/296

8/0.5? Luxury. We used to *dream* of having 8/0.5.

Before we got Starlink all hundred and twenty six of us would be connected to a single AP connected over dial up at 300 baud. It would take weeks just to download the day's news!

But you try and tell the young people today that.... and they won't believe ya'.

Nope.

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#2837136 23-Dec-2021 08:13

300 baud? Back when I were a lad we had to walk 8 miles to get a single bit an that was without shoes!

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#2837142 23-Dec-2021 08:24

RobDickinson:

300 baud? Back when I were a lad we had to walk 8 miles to get a single bit an that was without shoes!

And only to find some bugger had taken all the ones and left you only noughts :(

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#2842018 2-Jan-2022 16:42

Sort of relevant - Starlink are muscling in on NBN's territory across the ditch:

https://www.afr.com/companies/telecommunications/elon-musk-s-starlink-global-internet-creeps-onto-nbn-s-turf-20211221-p59j87

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#2842025 2-Jan-2022 17:08

How is it “muscling in”. Isn’t it an open market?

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#2842046 2-Jan-2022 18:57

jarledb: How is it “muscling in”. Isn’t it an open market?

From all I've read, heard and experienced myself for nearly 5 years over there, NBN is a joke in many (especially rural/semi-rural) areas. More often than you'd think, the NBN speeds are worse than the ADSL it replaces. So "muscling in" can't be too difficult.

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#2842227 3-Jan-2022 06:37

I laughed.

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#2842404 3-Jan-2022 11:41

quickymart:
Sort of relevant - Starlink are muscling in on NBN's territory across the ditch:

https://www.afr.com/companies/telecommunications/elon-musk-s-starlink-global-internet-creeps-onto-nbn-s-turf-20211221-p59j87

NBN doesn't 'own' any of it's coverage areas. Plus it's very often uselessly slow. Saw that first hand in Sydney a couple of years ago. In Randwick. The DSL was useless after 7am until midnight.

Go Starlink.

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#2842419 3-Jan-2022 12:10

It sounds like for a lot of rural people who should be getting decent broadband from NBN, that Starlink appears to be a much better option, which is sad if I think about it.

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#2842552 3-Jan-2022 19:20

quickymart:
It sounds like for a lot of rural people who should be getting decent broadband from NBN, that Starlink appears to be a much better option, which is sad if I think about it.

NBN is Lib/Nat policy. Failure is predictable and was predicted. The 'business party' in Australia is as clueless about business as most of their counterparts in other countries. Over promise. Under invest. Let the vested interests get away with a poor job.

The usual.

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#2842618 3-Jan-2022 23:41

Reckon eh. I have a friend who lives in Brisbane, quite close to the city centre (here she would be covered by fibre). The best she can get is a wireless connection. No fibre, and her DSL was really poor - so wireless was the best she could get.

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#2852700 18-Jan-2022 09:45

It would be nice to see SpaceX send a few dozen Starlink dishes to Tonga to restore internet access at least temporarily until undersea cable is repaired. Place them in shelters, libraries and other government buildings as Wi-Fi hotspots to allow people to contact family and friends.

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