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cross-posted from: https://quokk.au/post/39513

Anyone using this?

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[–] InvisibleShoe@lemmy.world 9 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

I used to, pre-22 floods.

It was slow, high latency with poor support.

Ended up shelling out $3000 for a roof mounted antenna with a mobile signal booster pointed at a tower 30km away.

Which was way better until they shutoff 3G and didnt bother to replace it with anything. The 4G signal is much noisier and hugely congested.

The skymuster gear is gathering dust.

[–] maniacalmanicmania@aussie.zone 4 points 1 month ago

Interesting! Thanks for sharing your experience with them.

[–] CoolThingAboutMe@aussie.zone 4 points 1 month ago

Used to. Was terrible but that was 7 years ago, not sure if it's improved since then

[–] Dimand@aussie.zone 3 points 1 month ago

Haven't used it in 4 years or so. It's probably a lot better these days since 90% of its users have moved onto starlink, so not as much congestion.

Won't fix the latency though. And I'm sure they still have the pitiful quotas and rate limiting.

[–] Eyekaytee@aussie.zone 1 points 1 month ago (1 children)

they were told to look into LEO sats as soon as starlink arrived but they decided not to for reasons unknown

[–] trk@aussie.zone 2 points 1 month ago

Probably the same reason the plan for FTTP got turned in to MTM.... Liberals.