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Daily Discussion Thread - Tue Aug 04 2026 (aussie.zone)
submitted 3 months ago by [B] to c/brisbane@aussie.zone
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[–] 3 points 3 months ago (2 children)

but I’m sick of it dropping out

Wow that sucks. I thought the whole point of it and the reason people went with it was supposed to be that it doesn't do that…

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  • [–] 4 points 3 months ago (1 child)

    I'm pretty sure the only people who think Starlink is good as a home connection are people who think "the internet" is "the wireless".

    I ran it for our small business briefly when HFC (also gross, FYI) was constantly going down. It made VOIP calls a 2G mobile network simulator - random robot glitches as the latency went in to the triple digits, and disconnects which on the router show as single digit seconds of disconnection but are enough to drop a call.

    Can't wait until our HFC gets upgraded to FTTP. I have that at home and it's beautiful. 1000/400Mbps means you never even think about internet. It just works. Everything works. Upload all the things, download all the things, never see a spinny loading symbol. Delicious.

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  • [–] 2 points 3 months ago

    I had HFC from 2020 until about a year ago, when I moved somewhere with FTTP. To be honest, in normal operation I don't really notice the difference. It was plenty fast enough. I'm on the plan that used to be 100 down (20 up I think? Not actually sure.) but got upgraded to 500 for free.

    The real difference is that the ageing coaxial part of HFC used to cause it to cut out completely every few weeks and require me to restart my router, the NTD, or both. The brand new fibre is so reliable.

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