Starlink satellite internet.

[Jovial Monk]

Got mine day before yesterday, set it up yesterday, finally got the scan of the sky completed.

Did a test just now. Holy Moly:

Download: 286Mbps
Upload: 12.7Mbps

Not bad at all!

[Bobby]

Got mine day before yesterday, set it up yesterday, finally got the scan of the sky completed.

Did a test just now. Holy Moly:

Download: 286Mbps
Upload: 12.7Mbps

Not bad at all!

How is the latency with Skype calls?

[Jovial Monk]

I dunno, never made a Skype call.

[Bobby]

I dunno, never made a Skype call.

You're the only person I know who doesn't have Skype.

[lisa jones]

I dunno, never made a Skype call.

You're the only person I know who doesn't have Skype.

To be fair Bobby there is a perfectly logical explanation for that. Dumbarse Drunk can’t very well Skype with himself AND not 1 person in the entire globe is desperate enough to want to Skype with him either

[Bobby]

I dunno, never made a Skype call.

You're the only person I know who doesn't have Skype.

To be fair Bobby there is a perfectly logical explanation for that. Dumbarse Drunk can’t very well Skype with himself AND not 1 person in the entire globe is desperate enough to want to Skype with him either

It's saved me a lot of money on overseas phone calls.
I can call other Skype users and talk for free and for those
who aren't I can dial their numbers and talk for pennies.

[lisa jones]

I dunno, never made a Skype call.

You're the only person I know who doesn't have Skype.

To be fair Bobby there is a perfectly logical explanation for that. Dumbarse Drunk can’t very well Skype with himself AND not 1 person in the entire globe is desperate enough to want to Skype with him either

It's saved me a lot of money on overseas phone calls.
I can call other Skype users and talk for free and for those
who aren't I can dial their numbers and talk for pennies.

Skype is great for us too as we have a lot of overseas friends and relatives.

[Super Nova]

Got mine day before yesterday, set it up yesterday, finally got the scan of the sky completed.

Did a test just now. Holy Moly:

Download: 286Mbps
Upload: 12.7Mbps

Not bad at all!

I like the sound of that. So much better than NBN?

How does the cost compare?

[Jovial Monk]

I pay $135.month.

No real competition.

Only NBN tech is their satellite. The revamped version will do 25:5 <== Somebody tell NBN Co this is the 21st century! I live in a village—we should not be on fucking satellite, keep that for the truly remote! Too cheap to put up a FW tower.

But with Starlink NBN Co are starting to sweat. I chatted with the postmistress here when picking it up, seems a few here have moved to Starlink and love it and my village will do that more and more, and other localities too.

I got over 300mb down, upload a bit under twenty but that is more than the download with ADSL. Telstra should have sent a tech here, look at the copper: when was the last time the copper was used?