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75% off Starlink hardware (for rural Australia)
SiliconWizard:
--- Quote from: wraper on April 13, 2023, 07:08:14 pm ---Choosing between Starlink and optic fiber is quite pointless unless you need to pay for it trough the nose or it's optic fiber only in name but not actual performance. It's fiber-like alternative for those who cannot get one. Not to say it's performance drops in areas with many users where you usually get said fiber optic. I personally use 5G with unlimited traffic and about 400-700 Mbit down and 60-110 Mbit up. And it costs me around $12/month, though I paid about $300 for 5G modem/router.
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Unlimited 5G for $12/month? Consider yourself lucky. We have nothing like that over here. With the average cost of a fiber connection, the 5G modem would be paid for in about 1 year.
Halcyon:
--- Quote from: SiliconWizard on April 14, 2023, 03:37:34 am ---
--- Quote from: wraper on April 13, 2023, 07:08:14 pm ---Choosing between Starlink and optic fiber is quite pointless unless you need to pay for it trough the nose or it's optic fiber only in name but not actual performance. It's fiber-like alternative for those who cannot get one. Not to say it's performance drops in areas with many users where you usually get said fiber optic. I personally use 5G with unlimited traffic and about 400-700 Mbit down and 60-110 Mbit up. And it costs me around $12/month, though I paid about $300 for 5G modem/router.
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Unlimited 5G for $12/month? Consider yourself lucky. We have nothing like that over here. With the average cost of a fiber connection, the 5G modem would be paid for in about 1 year.
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Likewise, a decent 5G service in Australia will cost you somewhere around $60 per month for a few hundred gigabytes (some are offering up to 500GB at these prices). Usually thereafter, you don't pay for excess data, but it is shaped.
Ed.Kloonk:
--- Quote from: Monkeh on April 13, 2023, 06:56:50 pm ---
--- Quote from: Halcyon on April 12, 2023, 01:15:59 pm ---What constitutes "rural" is not known
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"Australia" ;)
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Yeah. It totally depends on who you ask.
Telcos: You are rural, enjoy your soup cans and bit 'o string.
Local council: You must pay sewage and town water levy. Cos we might run that out there to you someday. Maybe.
edit: typo
Ed.Kloonk:
--- Quote from: Halcyon on April 14, 2023, 05:08:09 am ---
--- Quote from: SiliconWizard on April 14, 2023, 03:37:34 am ---
--- Quote from: wraper on April 13, 2023, 07:08:14 pm ---Choosing between Starlink and optic fiber is quite pointless unless you need to pay for it trough the nose or it's optic fiber only in name but not actual performance. It's fiber-like alternative for those who cannot get one. Not to say it's performance drops in areas with many users where you usually get said fiber optic. I personally use 5G with unlimited traffic and about 400-700 Mbit down and 60-110 Mbit up. And it costs me around $12/month, though I paid about $300 for 5G modem/router.
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Unlimited 5G for $12/month? Consider yourself lucky. We have nothing like that over here. With the average cost of a fiber connection, the 5G modem would be paid for in about 1 year.
--- End quote ---
Likewise, a decent 5G service in Australia will cost you somewhere around $60 per month for a few hundred gigabytes (some are offering up to 500GB at these prices). Usually thereafter, you don't pay for excess data, but it is shaped.
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Devil is in the detail. I bet you can't run a server.
Halcyon:
--- Quote from: Ed.Kloonk on April 14, 2023, 05:21:02 am ---
--- Quote from: Halcyon on April 14, 2023, 05:08:09 am ---
--- Quote from: SiliconWizard on April 14, 2023, 03:37:34 am ---
--- Quote from: wraper on April 13, 2023, 07:08:14 pm ---Choosing between Starlink and optic fiber is quite pointless unless you need to pay for it trough the nose or it's optic fiber only in name but not actual performance. It's fiber-like alternative for those who cannot get one. Not to say it's performance drops in areas with many users where you usually get said fiber optic. I personally use 5G with unlimited traffic and about 400-700 Mbit down and 60-110 Mbit up. And it costs me around $12/month, though I paid about $300 for 5G modem/router.
--- End quote ---
Unlimited 5G for $12/month? Consider yourself lucky. We have nothing like that over here. With the average cost of a fiber connection, the 5G modem would be paid for in about 1 year.
--- End quote ---
Likewise, a decent 5G service in Australia will cost you somewhere around $60 per month for a few hundred gigabytes (some are offering up to 500GB at these prices). Usually thereafter, you don't pay for excess data, but it is shaped.
--- End quote ---
Devil is in the detail. I bet you can't run a server.
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You could run a server on cellular, but why would you want to?
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