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HarleyM

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#312365 10-Apr-2024 20:13
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Hi, I've been umming and arrring about jumping on the Starlink band wagon for a while now. No fibre, no copper and despite living in sight of 4G towers the best deal at my RD1 residence is with 2 Deg Rural 4G broadband and that limits me to 170Gb a month. Having exceeded that regularly (and not always being forewarned) has become a big problem as I don't know what my bill is going to look like until it's deducted from my credit card. So I've been watching what's on offer from the stars, and it's been changing.

 

Starlink's deprioritised $79 a month plan has given me reason to look closer and if the advertisement pictures are correct, I now see a non-auto adjusting dish and a wifi 6 router that includes two built in ethernet ports. It looks suspicously like the V3 model (not mentioned) or maybe it's a hybrid of both V2 and V3. Apparently the new V3 setup uses a bit more power but is more reliable. Has anyone recently bought this new gear sold by Noel Leeming since the price went back up to $599 after April 1st and what did they actually get?


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tim0001
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  #3216874 11-Apr-2024 08:25
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Can't help with your NL question, but I see that Harvey Norman list the gen3 dish.

 

The new dishes are cheaper to produce, so hopefully the price will drop in a month or two.  Dish prices seem to follow the Brisco pattern.  The cheapest I've seen a new gen two is $173

 

 




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  #3216878 11-Apr-2024 08:43
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tim0001:

 

The new dishes are cheaper to produce, 

 

 

I hope this doesn't mean more failures. Someone I know had a gen2 failure and it took 3 weeks to warranty, Luckly they still had a xdsl at the time.





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  #3219434 17-Apr-2024 10:24
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Just bought a refurbished  STANDARD ACTUATED KIT unit directly from starlink for $264 incl shipping. So far so good. if it fails I'll get a V3 

 

 

 




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  #3219526 17-Apr-2024 13:33
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Just signed up with Starlink and 2 days later received new Gen3 dish and router, etc
Signed up for rental equipment = $19 per month and deprioritised plan.
Great deal!
Hoping to install this weekend, will post an update
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  #3219530 17-Apr-2024 13:38
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Just got an email from them for a $1 30-day trial period. Have a go since they offer a full refund if you cancel before the 30 days.

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  #3219532 17-Apr-2024 13:44
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Jvipers2: Just got an email from them for a $1 30-day trial period. Have a go since they offer a full refund if you cancel before the 30 days.

 

Be warned that returning the gear might be tricky if you live in an area DHL doesn't pickup from. We had to return a faulty unit and ended up having to drive it to Hamilton/Auckland from the Coromandel Peninsula (4-5 hour roundtrip).





Whitianga, Coromandel - Quic Rocket1G - Ref (free setup): R893192EGADLZ

 

Smokeping: Quic / Voyager / Starlink

 

Coromandel Webcam Network


 
 
 

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  #3225129 1-May-2024 16:42
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Hi

 

Just an update.

 

Gen3 dish installed and configured (just waiting for new router to arrive, so running through Starling router)

 

Took the opportunity to upgrade my Unifi network at the same time

 

Starlink install very easy - bought gable end roof mount for $70 and aligning dish took about 5 mins

 

Service has been excellent - no outages greater than 0.1 sec

 

Speed test from phone on wifi

 





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