Internet

If you're in Australia and are unhappy with your current internet offering, then it may be worth considering the new Starlink deal. Starlink is offering a 30-day trial of the service for just A$1. As you can probably guess, there's more to the story. The $1 is an inviting number to get you started and if you don't like it, you can send it...

After many happy years with Aussie Broadband, this week I switched internet providers to Superloop. Like many Australians, I enjoy connectivity through Fibre-to-the-Premise (FTTP) which theoretically supports speeds up to 1Gbps. Today, I'm connected to a 1Gbps service and getting around 932 Mbps down and 45Mbps up. When the National Broadband Network was rolled out to Australia, one of the fundamental shifts was the...

Australia is the 6th-largest country in the world by total area. It boasts a land mass of approximately 7.68 million square kilometres (or about 2.97 million square miles). This vast land mass includes a wide variety of landscapes, from deserts to rainforests, mountain ranges to coastal areas, and bustling cities to remote outback regions. Australia is also the largest country in the Southern Hemisphere...

SpaceX's Starlink offers fast internet across the world using low-earth orbit satellites that pass above us. That service just got cheaper with a limited-time offer (we don't know how long) in rural Australia. To get internet via Starlink, you need both the hardware and a monthly service plan. The hardware initially cost A$924 for the dish, a number that SpaceX founder Elon Musk once...

At the end of last year, the hardware disk required to get SpaceX's Starlink internet service was discounted from $924 down to $450. At the time, the discount was positioned as an end-of-the-year offer, however, the calendar year has now well and truly ticked over to 2023 and the hardware remains on sale. Starlink costs A$139 per month, which is certainly more than many...

Right now, Queensland and New South Wales are getting smashed with unprecedented rains, causing widespread floods. These aren't the kind of floods that mean roads are cut off and you need to find an alternate route, these floods are so severe that towns like Lismore, with a population of more than 40,000 residents, see almost every business and home get inundated. With so much water...

The extension on the end of domain names is known as a TLD or top-level domain. Starting next month .au domain names will go up for sale and today, a new national marketing campaign was launched by auDA to get everyone excited. auDA is the policy authority and industry self-regulatory body for the .au domain, which is the country-code top-level domain (ccTLD) for Australia. It was formed...

A page has shown up on SpaceX's Starlink site for Starlink Premium. This new larger design offers more than double the antenna capability of Starlink, delivering faster internet speeds and higher throughput for the highest demand users, including businesses. Starlink Premium users can expect download speeds of 150-500 Mbps and latency of 20-40ms, enabling high throughput connectivity for small offices, storefronts, and super users across...