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

[Space Lynx]

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

i'm still too afraid to visit Australia, i just know i will get bitten by something and die with my luck, the abrupt ending to the story of my life

 

[Count Shagula]

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

I mean you say that but on my old 4g setup it would take me probably 2 weeks to download battlefield 5 for example (And i wouldnt be able to play it at all as my connection was so slow the game wouldnt even connect). I downloaded every single battlefield game on origin in 4 hours while my kids were updating their consoles at the same time while also watching youtube/netflix and i was still able to play games with a ping that was 4x lower than my 4g setup. Before if 2 people were streaming something the net just went to complete shit. The max I've seen so far is 41 megabytes a second on it... Its life changing tbh

i'm still too afraid to visit Australia, i just know i will get bitten by something and die with my luck, the abrupt ending to the story of my life

I'm very rural and its not that bad. This year so far I've only been bitten by ticks, leaches, bull ants, garden spiders many times, an eel, a hornet, a horse, a wild dog/dingo, one of our rams came through an electric fence and obliterated me (7 broken ribs) and I almost shot my foot trying to disable a very fast and angry brown snake that was in my lounge room.

 

[Space Lynx]

I'm very rural and its not that bad. This year so far I've only been bitten by ticks, leaches, bull ants, garden spiders many times, an eel, a hornet, a horse, a wild dog/dingo, one of our rams came through an electric fence and obliterated me (7 broken ribs) and I almost shot my foot trying to disable a very fast and angry brown snake that was in my lounge room.

holy shit, lmao

I just started reading, and then it all became too real...

 

[ShiBDiB]

I'm very rural and its not that bad. This year so far I've only been bitten by ticks, leaches, bull ants, garden spiders many times, an eel, a hornet, a horse, a wild dog/dingo, one of our rams came through an electric fence and obliterated me (7 broken ribs) and I almost shot my foot trying to disable a very fast and angry brown snake that was in my lounge room.

I'm going to stick to America where we just shoot eachother.

 

[Mussels]

I mean you say that but on my old 4g setup it would take me probably 2 weeks to download battlefield 5 for example (And i wouldnt be able to play it at all as my connection was so slow the game wouldnt even connect). I downloaded every single battlefield game on origin in 4 hours while my kids were updating their consoles at the same time while also watching youtube/netflix and i was still able to play games with a ping that was 4x lower than my 4g setup. Before if 2 people were streaming something the net just went to complete shit. The max I've seen so far is 41 megabytes a second on it... Its life changing tbh


I'm very rural and its not that bad. This year so far I've only been bitten by ticks, leaches, bull ants, garden spiders many times, an eel, a hornet, a horse, a wild dog/dingo, one of our rams came through an electric fence and obliterated me (7 broken ribs) and I almost shot my foot trying to disable a very fast and angry brown snake that was in my lounge room.

4G/LTE here isnt like the USA
These unlimited Sims are locked to 25/5, but i regularly get 1Gb/s speeds of my 4G sim card
Because we dont have unlimited data on regular plans, we dont have congestion issues

 

[Count Shagula]

4G/LTE here isnt like the USA
These unlimited Sims are locked to 25/5, but i regularly get 1Gb/s speeds of my 4G sim card
Because we dont have unlimited data on regular plans, we dont have congestion issues

Im Aussie, west of Ulladulla. I had 2 sims in 4G dongles from Felix (Vodafone). $35 aud a month for unlimited. Where i am they were good enough to browse the net but for anything else useless. We even tried Telstras $200 a month unlimited plan and it was even worse. Might get one megabyte a second at like 3am but during the day it would maybe be 200k a second if your lucky and a ping of over 1000 in any games. Thats with huge powered antennas. Last night in peak times i was getting 40 megabytes a second from starlink while 4 of us were playing online games with a ping that didnt go over 50ms. It actually downloads so fast sometimes that my old usb hdds shit themselves and restart

 

[Mussels]

Im Aussie, west of Ulladulla. I had 2 sims in 4G dongles from Felix (Vodafone). $35 aud a month for unlimited. Where i am they were good enough to browse the net but for anything else useless. We even tried Telstras $200 a month unlimited plan and it was even worse. Might get one megabyte a second at like 3am but during the day it would maybe be 200k a second if your lucky and a ping of over 1000 in any games. Thats with huge powered antennas. Last night in peak times i was getting 40 megabytes a second from starlink while 4 of us were playing online games with a ping that didnt go over 50ms. It actually downloads so fast sometimes that my old usb hdds shit themselves and restart

Check facebook marketplace for any second hand telstra gen 2 routers, the white cubic ones
If you find one with a working SIM, i can walk you through modding the shit out of the firmware to unlock the router to be a top-tier AC2200 beast with free 4G backup if starlink has an outage

 

[Hyderz]

are there downsides to starlink? like cloudy weather or rainy weather?

 

[Mussels]

are there downsides to starlink? like cloudy weather or rainy weather?

pings are slightly erratic like all wireless technologies, and if you're not located in a great spot they can have some swings

Those located below the swarms tend to get a pretty solid experience, it's only the (literal) edge cases that have problems

 

[Count Shagula]

are there downsides to starlink? like cloudy weather or rainy weather?

The price at $139 a month for aussies lol. We havent had any issues with it so far. Been rock solid. I currently have 2 streams of 4k netflix going in the house, pc's updating and 3 of us playing hell let loose all this morning with a ping under 40ms. Its cloudy and rainy outside atm. The fastest download speed i have seen so far as around 63 megabytes a second but mostly sits in the mid 30s. Its weird being able to download 100gig in like 20 minutes when it used to take 2 weeks

 

[delshay]

Not sure if the link serves any purpose to this thread, if not Moderate(s) can delete/remove this posting.

Russians are developing Starlink tracer

 

[Mussels]

Not sure if the link serves any purpose to this thread, if not Moderate(s) can delete/remove this posting.

[link removed]

Did you find that link elsewhere or have you been hacked @delshay?


Okay nevermind, the preview text for that link has nothing to do with the actual content of the link
"Russians are developing Starlink tracer"
Edited the link to not have spam about DIMM testing

 

[qubit]

@Count Shagula good luck with it, hope it works out.

 

[delshay]

Did you find that link elsewhere or have you been hacked @delshay?


Okay nevermind, the preview text for that link has nothing to do with the actual content of the link
"Russians are developing Starlink tracer"
Edited the link to not have spam about DIMM testing

Does it serve any purpose for this thread? I would think it would have some effect on network service. Or should I just delete my posting?

 

[Hofnaerrchen]

4G/LTE here isnt like the USA
These unlimited Sims are locked to 25/5, but i regularly get 1Gb/s speeds of my 4G sim card
Because we dont have unlimited data on regular plans, we dont have congestion issues

I have to ask: What's 25/5?

 

[P4-630]

I have to ask: What's 25/5?

He probably means 25Mbps Download / 5Mbps Upload.

 

[Mussels]

I have to ask: What's 25/5?

speed limits. Internet infrastructure is really different here, we dont get unlimited peak speeds, but as a result we get guaranteed minimums
Go on prepaid LTE/4G and you can get gigabit, but go on an unlimited plan and it might be capped to 25Mb/s

Americans get outraged by this, but it prevents the networks going to crap like you guys have, we have almost total coverage country wide without any roaming fees and weirdness you guys get

Edit: We still have internet neutrality, ISP's cant throttle or block things, etc. It's a different system, but one that I prefer - I can wait for big downloads in exchange for paying $15 a month for my phone having unlimited calls and texts and working in 99.4% of populated areas

 

[Hofnaerrchen]

He probably means 25Mbps Download / 5Mbps Upload.

Thanks

 

[Count Shagula]

So i've downloaded 18tb this month. Updating my pc/consoles and my 3 kids multiple machines and now we stream everything in 4k instead of 360p. Im still speed testing at 230Mbps at worst. We've seen download speeds over 50 Megabytes a second measured by steams peak speeds. I have seen some negative comments about starlink from users but so far for us its been a fucking dream. Going from maybe 1 meg a second at best at 3am and maybe 200kbps during the day to mostly 25 Megabytes a second all day long at worst has been life changing. The price of 139aud a month still shits me but not as much as giving Elon Musk my money. I don't like the guy at all and hate that my hard earned cash is going to him. So far the service well and truly delivers

 

[stinger608]

50 Megabytes

Just to clarify, at 50 Mbps is not 50 Megabytes, it is 50 Megabits per second.

 

[Count Shagula]

Just to clarify, at 50 Mbps is not 50 Megabytes, it is 50 Megabits per second.

I actually mean 50 megabytes a second download speed. Im getting 25 atm. I usually speed test in the ~240Mbps range and downloads are usually 20 megabytes a second or faster. Many websites or download clients seem to cap your max speed though. Im not used to that coming from such a slow connection. I downloaded BFV which is around 110gig in less than 20 minutes where Microsoft Flight Sim from the Xbox pc app wouldnt download faster than 2 megabytes a second and took days