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I put a pre-order in a week ago, after the status changed a couple of days earlier (from 'please give us your email address so we can advise you' to 'we have a
by Jedd 6y ago
I put a pre-order in a week ago, after the status changed a couple of days earlier (from 'please give us your email address so we can advise you' to 'we have a limited offering per region' - which is what's showing now).
I'm about 250km north-west of Sydney, Australia, currently limited to a 25/5Mbps satellite circuit, with 600+ms RTT. I'm paying AUD$80 pcm, and have a data cap of 80 / 150 GB (peak/off-peak).
Between 17:00 and 23:00 the effective service drops down to about 5Mbps down.
Starlink in AU will cost ~ AUD$140 pcm, 30ms RTT, and likely give me 100 / 20 Mbps, with no cap (at least until the heavy-feeders come in and ruin that arrangement for the rest of us). (EDIT - plus AUD $700 once the order is processed later this year, for the equipment.)
I believe some regions - eg, Norfolk Island - have already max'd out their pre-order quotas though.
EDIT: fixed typo of MB -> GB
- gibybo 6y ago>25/5Mbps satellite circuit >data cap of 80 / 150 MB So if you had the full 25 mbps available, you would hit your peak cap in 26 seconds? Do you only use it for email/text based applications?
- Jedd 6y agoYikes, and thanks for picking that up. I meant 80 / 150 GB -- I'll correct my earlier post.