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75% off Starlink hardware (for rural Australia)

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asmi:

--- Quote from: Ed.Kloonk on April 14, 2023, 05:53:10 am ---Short answer: redundancy. 

The few times I've messed around with it, the incoming connections are blocked. No, I want an IP address.

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You can use tunnel services like Cloudflare which would have a client inside your network establishing connection, and Cloudflare's reverse proxy servers will route web traffic through that tunnel, they will also provide a TLS termination, and a FREE wildcard certificate for your domain to boot! This service has a free tier (bandwidth-limited), so that you can have all this for free if you don't need high bandwidth. You also won't need a "white" IP address in this case because traffic will go to their servers.

gamalot:

--- 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.

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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.

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The home broadband plan I signed up about two years ago is 75 Australian dollars per month, no data limit, Optus.

Halcyon:

--- Quote from: gamalot on April 17, 2023, 11:44:26 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.

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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.

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The home broadband plan I signed up about two years ago is 75 Australian dollars per month, no data limit, Optus.

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Could be good value, depending on your coverage, but also keep in mind those cellular services are shaped. Typically around the 50/10 or 100/20 Mbps mark. Even the so-called "unlimited speed" plans are still limited. Those cheaper residential services almost always get the lowest priority on a cell. This becomes a particular problem in densely populated areas like major CBDs when special events are on; You share the same airtime with thousands, if not hundreds of thousands of devices. It's enough to keep most people happy, but certainly not for everyone. I really notice it working in Government during New Years Eve in the city. We used SIMs/services that allowed higher priority on a cell, which means we got the bulk of the capacity, everyone else gets bumped/times out.

It's a case of "you get what you pay for". Even between fixed-line services like Fibre to the Node/Curb/Premises, not all ISPs/plans are created equal, even though it's the same physical infrastructure.

gamalot:
My broadband transfer rate here is not bad, staying at 400-500/80 most of the time, occasionally dropping to 300/60. Considering that I could only get 4G or even ADSL+ at the same price in the past, I am very satisfied with the current 5G broadband. It's a little slow here today, I suspect too many people are watching the starship launch.

sausage:
Chiming in about the Canberra region as well. Canberrans themselves have NBN, but outside the region past Queanbeyan, there are only scrappy internet options. Starlink's $200 offer is attractive.

Except that we're not on the $200 list even though we are in a rural spot.

Starlink do not publish a map of who is on the $200 offer.

Starlink have no email address or chat, or phone number, or any way of asking.

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