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Bit late on the news towards starlink but it is now deploying

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yvesjv:

--- Quote from: WAI4WD on Mar 07, 2022, 03:55:21 PM ---I always miss my internet speed when away from home.

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Yeah but nope you don't need starlink  :cup:

OTOH, have you tested with tracetcp?
I used it awhile back to prove to Netcomm their routers were sh#t and a bottleneck.
At your speed, you are either gaming or running a few servers at home... you do not want bottlenecks.

WAI4WD:

--- Quote from: yvesjv on Mar 08, 2022, 07:37:33 AM ---At your speed, you are either gaming or running a few servers at home... you do not want bottlenecks.

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Me? Servers and lots of upload required for the wifes work which is all online MYOB nowadays. The last time I looked at bandwidth, I think we're using about 2.5TB a day.

WAI4WD:
I see Starlink have now enabled roaming for limited beta testing with US clients. Good to see that soon it will meet a good majorities needs by allowing portability without having to change address. The moment that's available here in Australia, is the same moment I buy one for all our travelling.

Bookleaf:
There are a couple of people experimenting/being guinea pigs for/with roaming here in Australia I believe, but because of the limited coverage, it really is not a viable system yet for full-scale, free for all, roaming.  In fact, Starlink is being silent on roaming and does not yet acknowledge it is a possibility.  Even in the USA, it is not fully endorsed yet.  I do not think it will be sold into Australia until there is a much greater coverage Australia-wide.  The hopeful (but unrealistic) expectations of users would not be worth the help-desk hassle it would create if released now.  There are still too many technical difficulties to be ironed out.

The Starlink system is designed to deliver high-speed internet to those in remote locations, with fixed locations and where poor internet access -or even no access- was/is possible.
I certainly beats the pants off Skymuster who is losing customers at a great rate.  It is not intended for areas where there is already reasonable FTN, FNN, etc.  It is more $$ than Skymuster and land-based Internet.  The upside is the high speeds (up to 200Mb) and low latency that the Starlink system provides.

It really is still in "Betta" mode, despite some announcements to the contrary.  Reliable coverage 24/7 is not guaranteed.  In fact. over the last few weeks. there have been many disgruntled customers complaining of poor speeds/ drop-outs, and poor response from support (which has been very responsive beforehand).

The system relies on a large number (apparently some 40,000 eventually - yes 40,000) of low-orbit satellites (about 300-500km above the earth) moving across the sky worldwide and a network of ground stations connected (for us) to the Australian fiber back-bone.  The customers' dish finds a passing satellite and latches on to it, passing signals from the customer to the satellite which in turn then passes the signal to the closest ground station it can see, and hence then to the WWW.  As the satellite goes out of range of either the customer or a ground station, the customer dish searches/latches onto a different satellite and the customers' service continues uninterrupted (sort of, though most customers normally do not see any loss of service). 
Limitations to date are the number of satellites and the number of ground stations. It is a lack of ground stations currently impacting coverage here in Australia. 
Due to the capacity of each satellite to handle only a limited number of customer dishes, the total number of customers in any one area is restricted by Starlink for any given area until more satellites are in the sky. 
If no ground station exists, then there is no Starlink available at all, even though there may be satellites overhead.
Satellites with interconnecting laser beams to help spread the load are starting to be sent up and will help the coverage.

Roaming will come, but it is tantalizingly just out of reach at the moment.

WAI4WD:
For me and the wife, travelling in Victoria, its perfect. $140 a month is well worth it to us when we start travelling more, and the entire of Victoria is already covered with base stations, so no issues in Victoria and near half of NSW is covered already, all of Tasmania is also covered.

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