New Starlink Deprioritised plan available for $79 per month

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#311932 28-Feb-2024 11:44

I just saw that there is now a cheaper plan available for Starlink owners in NZ, a deprioritized service for residential customers at one location.

Standard: 150-250 Mbps @ $159/Month

Deprioritized Standard: 50-100 Mbps @ $79/Month

Look like an interesting option for some people. My main usage of youtube is not too heavy so I think I'll probably give it a try

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#3200802 28-Feb-2024 12:16

Hmm, very interesting. I wonder what kind of speeds that will get. Certainly, very cheap offering.

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#3200804 28-Feb-2024 12:20

Whats the ability to kick it back to fast speeds if needed like?

Might be good to keep it there as a backup connection.

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#3200807 28-Feb-2024 12:23

richms:

Whats the ability to kick it back to fast speeds if needed like?

Might be good to keep it there as a backup connection.

I'd say like the others, you just do a plan change. If it's to a higher plan, it activates straight away, and you pay the part month difference. A plan change down happens on bill cycle.

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#3200808 28-Feb-2024 12:26

Sounds like a WISP killer to me....

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#3200831 28-Feb-2024 13:02

This is going to be perfect for backup connections

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#3200835 28-Feb-2024 13:13

Guess who lives in the one single waitlist hex in the whole country. Guess its not meant to be. Anyway the fibre has been rock solid since they have stopped working in the street all the time on it so probably dont need something right now.

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#3200895 28-Feb-2024 14:51

Great news as absolutely perfect for me as I'm about to have fibre installed (even though rural and up a 800m driveway, thanks to https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/country/462118/govt-to-fund-rural-broadband-network-upgrades) I'll be keeping Starlink as a backup connection.

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#3200903 28-Feb-2024 15:13

50-100 mbps will be fine for 90% of folk

I am on 950/500 now and the only time I ever get close to that is when downloading large ISOs

Most of the time my connection idles at 10-15mbps with streaming

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#3200905 28-Feb-2024 15:16

This certainly adds an interesting element to options for failover services, with copper-based services being retired and starlink often coming in a fair price more than a LTE/5G service generally see that route being taken, but at this price for the speed and latency that's pretty compelling and far less likely to be congested - be it at a more expensive cost for the hardware.

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#3201036 28-Feb-2024 20:12

Gosh, this sure does look tempting. Probably just going to keep this in the back pocket if VDSL starts acting up again (especially since it's only back to grin and bear it stage as it stands), but it's at least a reasonable alternative now.

What's the latency like these days?

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#3201044 28-Feb-2024 20:41

Starlink is about 60ms which is on par with 4G but higher than VDSL and Fibre

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#3201135 28-Feb-2024 22:39

My latency is currently 22ms, and almost always sub 30ms

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#3201695 29-Feb-2024 17:03

Thats fantastic pricing

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#3201910 1-Mar-2024 10:03

We have 4G Wireless BB in Peka Peka ,Kapiti through Spark, as no fibre is available.

Top speeds are better than this, but the reliability seems to be getting worse, and the speeds get below 20 at night

Would you think this service is likely to be materially better? The other option is to try One.NZ who get a stronger signal on my phone at least when compared to Skinny via dual sim

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#3201934 1-Mar-2024 11:02

potsiea:

We have 4G Wireless BB in Peka Peka ,Kapiti through Spark, as no fibre is available.

Top speeds are better than this, but the reliability seems to be getting worse, and the speeds get below 20 at night

Would you think this service is likely to be materially better? The other option is to try One.NZ who get a stronger signal on my phone at least when compared to Skinny via dual sim

Peka Peka has 3 VDSL cabinets along the road out to the beach, you should be able to get 50+ MBPS on VDSL anywhere along there

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