Just ordered Starlink. If you already have it post your speed tests!

[Count Shagula]

I live pretty rural and my family relies on a 4G modem and its just awful. Kids always complaining they cant even stream youtube/netflix let alone play a game. Really excited to have something better than this. If you are already using it post your speed tests to make me even more excited. Behold my current connection

 

[Space Lynx]

Give it another 6-8 months, and I bet you will be getting quadruple that. Just takes time.

My buddy has Starlink, he gets over 100 Mbps in the speedtest in Washington State, he is also quite rural out there. Just have to wait on more Starlinks and you will be enjoying high speed like him though.

 

[Count Shagula]

Give it another 6-8 months, and I bet you will be getting quadruple that. Just takes time.

My buddy has Starlink, he gets over 100 Mbps in the speedtest in Washington State, he is also quite rural out there. Just have to wait on more Starlinks and you will be enjoying high speed like him though.

Oh no thats my current 4G test! I literally just ordered starlink like half an hour ago. My neighbour has it and gets 300Mb

 

[Mussels]

JC316 had it, and it was great at first and then went to shit so he cancelled before the trial period ended

He was getting anywhere from 0.5Mb to 100Mb, but with ping spikes and packet loss that originally were great but when the supberbowl? or some handegg thing was on, went to shit and he couldnt game for a weekend and gave up

 

[Space Lynx]

Oh no thats my current 4G test! I literally just ordered starlink like half an hour ago. My neighbour has it and gets 300Mb

oh I see, lol, woops.

I mean I think you will like it, cause at end of day its still better than nothing. for live events its probably not great, but i imagine it will be a lot nicer for other things, like youtube, where buffering takes place, etc.

 

[Mussels]

It just comes down to congestion in your area - starlink had a few failed launches that have set them behind, some areas have over congestion as a result until they can get more successful launches

 

[Count Shagula]

It just comes down to congestion in your area - starlink had a few failed launches that have set them behind, some areas have over congestion as a result until they can get more successful launches

Thankfully my nearest neighbour is like 3km away and within probably a 50km radius there are only a handful of people

JC316 had it, and it was great at first and then went to shit so he cancelled before the trial period ended

He was getting anywhere from 0.5Mb to 100Mb, but with ping spikes and packet loss that originally were great but when the supberbowl? or some handegg thing was on, went to shit and he couldnt game for a weekend and gave up

Ooooof. I wanted positive speed tests not this! lol. I already cant game but still. Damn

 

[Mussels]

Thankfully my nearest neighbour is like 3km away and within probably a 50km radius there are only a handful of people


Ooooof. I wanted positive speed tests not this! lol. I already cant game but still. Damn

There are more successes than failures, but people at the edges are the ones who get erratic service

I think that weekend some hurricane hit and some sats were moved over to help emergency services or something of the like, and his service went to shit and threw out our gaming plans until he got his DLS back up

 

[Lei]

I live pretty rural and my family relies on a 4G modem and its just awful. Kids always complaining they cant even stream youtube/netflix let alone play a game. Really excited to have something better than this. If you are already using it post your speed tests to make me even more excited. Behold my current connectionView attachment 268050

Fxxk the internet, what the hell is your 186cm rad? Tell me

 

[Count Shagula]

Fxxk the internet, what the hell is your 186cm rad? Tell me

lmao. I have a 240mm alphacool rad on the top of my case, a 360mm on the front with a pump and res combo internally. I also have an external 1260mm alphacool rad with 2 extra pumps on it and quick disconnects so if i want to move the pc i just disconnect the external one and connect the tubes at the back making it a normal internal loop again. Ill take some photos after work. Its hilarious because the 1260 is on the other side of the wall on a bench in the veranda. I put it there so i wouldnt have to listen to the 18 fans on it but with all 3 rads + 3 pumps and a temp target on my gpu of 75c the fans never spin anyway. I haven't run it through a summer with the giant external yet though but the other day it was 33c and with no fans i stress tested the 3090 and it only go to 66. I wanted to get a MO RA3 but too many $$$

 

[Mussels]

lmao. I have a 240mm alphacool rad on the top of my case, a 360mm on the front with a pump and res combo internally. I also have an external 1260mm alphacool rad with 2 extra pumps on it and quick disconnects so if i want to move the pc i just disconnect the external one and connect the tubes at the back making it a normal internal loop again. Ill take some photos after work. Its hilarious because the 1260 is on the other side of the wall on a bench in the veranda. I put it there so i wouldnt have to listen to the 18 fans on it but with all 3 rads + 3 pumps and a temp target on my gpu of 75c the fans never spin anyway. I haven't run it through a summer with the giant external yet though but the other day it was 33c and with no fans i stress tested the 3090 and it only go to 66. I wanted to get a MO RA3 but too many $$$

Make a thread and tag us in it? I've been pondering an external rad to exhaust heat directly out my window and would love to see what you've done

 

[P4-630]

Starting in December, Starlink will limit home users' satellite internet when customers use more than 1TB of data per month during peak hours.
After exceeding 1TB, users will be reverted to lower speeds.

Starlink

High-speed internet. Available almost anywhere on Earth.

www.starlink.com

 

[stinger608]

Starting in December, Starlink will limit home users' satellite internet when customers use more than 1TB of data per month during peak hours.
After exceeding 1TB, users will be reverted to lower speeds.

Starlink

High-speed internet. Available almost anywhere on Earth.

www.starlink.com

Crazy, I was just going to post this exact thing.
Sucks for sure, however, most satellite providers do the same thing. Heck, there are some cable internet providers that do this as well.

 

[Steevo]

I manage a few, they are typically between 40-100Mbps, the latency isn't bad, they use CGNAT so you don't get a public IP, power consumption is between 30-40W in summer, and when there is snow its 100W in the extreme cold. The built in router is OK, since they are CGNAT it almost *almost but not* eliminates the need for a firewall on the connection, the outages are usually less than 5-10 minutes every few days. You can tell when kids and people get home from school/work as the speed during the day is good, after the area starts to get saturated though it does slow down, very few missed packets or dropped connections.


I'm on the wait list currently, should be available but we are just on the fringe of service.

 

[Mussels]

the download limits on starlink are pretty fair and are being blown out of proportion by various media outlets
1TB a month during peak hours, unlimited overnight


Oh no you cant smash 24/7 downloads off your satellite service, woe is you

 

[dir_d]

Have a friend that has Starlink 25down 3up not that great but pings are better than satellite

 

[Mussels]

Heres the example i was looking for:

One user in Au went above the 1% line and downloaded ~27TB in a month in the far off time of 2019
NBN Co: Queenslander downloads record 26.8TB of data in single month (9news.com.au)

When the average Aussie used ~250GB, so a good 110x the average

users like that are the ones who need to get throttled before they impact the rest of the network, as they're the ones choking the infrastructure

 

[Count Shagula]

This is my old 4G compared to Starlink. Amazed so far

 

[Space Lynx]

If I could score a full time remote job, I would 100% get Starlink for RV and just get a small 1 person RV and travel and around with Starlink, just plugin to different campgrounds, go to all the national parks.... the funny thing is... THAT IS NOT IMPOSSIBLE, I mean it most likely won't happen, but I am trying to make it happen.

It just blows me away what Starlink has made possible. I don't know much about the astronomy problem stuff, witholding judgment one way or the other, it is what it is.

 

[InVasMani]

Starlink should just get better over time as coverage expands in more area's and becomes more reliable and widely availible at the same time.

 

[Space Lynx]

Starlink should just get better over time as coverage expands in more area's and becomes more reliable and widely availible at the same time.

they just launched their first generation 2 satellites last week, which i think doubles the bandwidth. will still take time.

my only question is, why didn't they just launch gen 2 satellites to begin with, surely the tech was already there to begin with...

 

[P4-630]

surely the tech was already there to begin with...

Probably much more expensive to make at that time?

 

[InVasMani]

Could've just been easier to launch more satellites across more regions initially with less higher end tech involved with less bleeding edge hardware to source!!? Expenses is certainly part of the equation, but also sourcing materials can take time depending on how widely availible they are and can be produced. Also let's not forget there is the whole covid epidemic that's complicated plenty of things to do with production.

 

[Divide Overflow]

they just launched their first generation 2 satellites last week, which i think doubles the bandwidth. will still take time.

my only question is, why didn't they just launch gen 2 satellites to begin with, surely the tech was already there to begin with...

I thought they needed Starship to get Gen 2 to orbit. They are five times heavier than Gen 1 and much bulkier.
Elon Musk said the Falcon 9 platform used for current Starlink launches “has neither the volume nor the mass orbit capability required for Starlink 2.0.”

 

[Mussels]

See, i love how things work here in Au
I can go buy a $20 second hand modem-router from people who have no idea what they're selling from Telstra, and live off the free internet in the internal SIM card
I have a little UPS battery in my car, and can manage around 6 hours of LTE before charging it (which happens when the engines on)

I may have three 25/5 SIM's in those routers that do around 100-200GB a month of data if needed, that just never disconnected despite the owners changing ISP's


So yeah, starlink not so needed down under