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SpaceX's low-earth orbit satellite internet service Starlink has changed the lives of many Australians who were unsatisfied with alternatives. The revolutionary has just launched its highly anticipated "Mini" offering in Australia. Starlink has typically offered speeds of up to 300Mbps with it's full-sized dish, but the cost of around A$130pm turned away many who simply couldn't or didn't want to pay that much per month...

Today, X user Oleg Kutkov uncovered a new product called Starlink Mini. In the post he shared 3 images, 2 of different angles of the hardware, along with a third that features a small circuit board with a model number and FCC ID. https://twitter.com/olegkutkov/status/1802398697335951451 Having broke the news,@elonmusk confirmed it was indeed real, replying with a series of posts to share more details. What is Starlink Mini? Starlink...

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...