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    NBN Upgrade: I just moved to Superloop’s 1Gbps plan for $99pm

    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...

    In 2025, you could travel anywhere in Australia and have great mobile service, thanks to Starlink

    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 Starlink is 78% off right now! Just A$199 for regional and rural Australia and New Zealand

    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...

    Starlink’s hardware discount continues into 2023

    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...

    Thankyou NetVault, these legends donated Starlink terminals to get free internet to flood victims in QLD and NSW

    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...

    .AU domain names go on sale March 24th

    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...

    SpaceX announce Starlink Premium, speeds up to 500Mbps for high demand and business applications

    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...

    Aussie Broadband to roll out 112km of dark fibre in Adelaide, up to 100 Gbps for specialist applications

    Aussie Broadband has partnered with South Australia’s largest data centre, YourDC, to roll out 112km of 360-core dark fibre throughout the greater Adelaide metropolitan area, giving hundreds of businesses up to 10 Gbps access and up to 100 Gbps for specialist applications.  The Aussie Broadband fibre build will connect YourDC’s Edinburgh Parks facility in the north and Hawthorn in the south, with six Points of...

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    NBN Upgrade: I just moved to Superloop’s 1Gbps plan for $99pm

    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)...

    In 2025, you could travel anywhere in Australia and have great mobile service, thanks to Starlink

    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...

    SpaceX Starlink is 78% off right now! Just A$199 for regional and rural Australia and New Zealand

    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...
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