Sky Muster NBN Installed....proper internet at last!

[w0mbat]

Hi all,
The techs just completed installing our NBN Sky Muster Satellite internet and I have to say after just one hour I am pretty impressed.
Just measured 21.5 Mb/s down and 2.2 Mb/s up and a ping around 600 mS.
My wife is on another laptop having a Skype conversation with video which never worked on the old interim satellite.
ABC iview works perfectly which also would not work reliably on the old satellite. So glad Labor ordered these satellites before the philistines got in. Apparently Turnbull was opposed to them initially.
So if you are on one of the old satellite systems get your forms in for Sky Muster...it is cheaper as well!
Ian

[gary]

Great to hear you are online and getting good speeds! :thumbsup:

[glend]

Nice to hear your happy with that very expensive (to tax payers) satellite service. Sadden by your need to inject your politics into an IIS thread, we are all ready inundated with it on most every other media.

[w0mbat]

My apologies if I have caused offence. A rush of blood to the brain caused by the eventual end of years and years of mostly very poor satellite internet.
Ian

[gary]

The NBN and Sky Muster is ultimately paid for by its users, not by the taxpayer.

It uses an equity funding model.

An analogy is where a government puts forward the initial funding for a
piece of infrastructure such as road or bridge and then users pay for its
construction and use, plus interest, over time by paying a toll.

Often large infrastructure projects are additionally initially funded by
the issuing of bonds. Sometimes individuals and/or businesses are invited
to have an equity stake as well.

Government seeding of infrastructure projects allows them to be brought
forward so they benefit people earlier.

However, ultimately the current funding model is that it is the users that end
up paying for the NBN's construction and running.

[Nikolas]

What's it cost a month?

[w0mbat]

For 30 GB peak plus 60Gb off peak at 25/5 Mb down/up it is $50 per month. Paying the same before for 20GB total at 5/1 which rarely achieved that speed.
Interesting that around our chosen plan is the sweet spot. Larger plans begin to get more expensive per GB.
Ian

[Ric]

Hi Ian, glad to hear you got your satellite service installed.

I'm looking forward to getting mine installed but don't know when, I did all the forms about 12 months ago. So far they reckon maybe about the end of this year.

It would be nice to get something comparable to the people in the cities.

cheers

[The_bluester]

It is a matter of record that our now PM was opposed with much vehemence, rhetoric and hyperbole to the satellites. Publically opposed anyway, what his own opinion is I doubt we will ever know.

Good to hear the install has gone well, I have some friends in Gippsland waiting with bated breath. They currently have fixed wireless being installed near them but topography may send them to satellite anyway.

[deanm]

Here in rural Nildottie, SA, we've got fixed wireless NBN.

We got it before Adelaide started rolling cable!

With my ISP, I get 50 Gb/month for $40. That's less than what I used to pay in the city and with higher data rates.

NBN is Good!

Dean

Dean

[The_bluester]

We are a house of heavy users, We are paying $80 for 500Gig but we would rarely hit 300. But when large files are sent and received, getting throttled is pretty painful. We have only actually been throttles once (on the older 300gig plan we had) and that was a result of school holidays and netflix.

[gregbradley]

How do you get connected to the satellite internet?

Greg.

[strongmanmike]

Eeeexactly Gary! :thumbsup:

[w0mbat]

It is only available where other methods are not. So there are defined areas where the govt. will install satellite for no initial cost to the user. So to check whether you are in such an area you have to provide your address or lat. and long.
If you in an approved area it is just a matter of applying to one of the ISP's that do satellite.
Ian