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Bryan1

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Joined: 22/02/2006
Location: Australia
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Posted: 09:17pm 02 Dec 2021

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G'Day Guy's,
Well my long term gamble on Shiba Inu paid off and I sold a heap of tokens when it an all time high so had quite a few grand to buy some toys.

Did a bit of research and did find out other people here in Oz are using it so went ahead and bought a sat kit. $806 up front then the waiting game started, saw on the news spacex had put up a rocket with 53 new sats and 3 days later got an email saying my kit was shipped. Took 8 days to ship from the US to our farm gate and yesterday I took down the old NBN sat which had sat on the roof for years and used the the base as the mount for the new pizza sized dish.

For the next roughly 12 months this is in beta testing so that why the slow speed of about 50Mbit is shown, once this platform is mature one can expect the bandwidth to be in the gigabit range.

This was the only option we had to get real broadband and from testing over 24 hours it's 10-15 time quicker than the old ADSL line we had before. This new setup is only $30 a month dearer than the old ADSL so finally we can move to the present century as far as the internet goes.

Cheers Bryan

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