National Broadband Plan or Starlink

I have no doubt it is secure, I am going to wait for the pipe adapter to be delivered though, I am a bit paranoid about the dish falling off and getting smashed to pieces. I am still waiting for the pipe adapter, I have seen a few people on reddit saying that this item is slow to be delivered. I kind of need it asap because my dish is still sitting in the lawn. It's not in any danger but it's not ideal leaving it there for too long a time.

I saw the pipe adapter advertised on a US site but it is twice the price Starlink have it for. It looks the same as the Starlink one. I am half-tempted to buy it but they don't deliver outside the US or Canada. I have a virtual US address with AddresPal (I have never used it). I could use that to get it but I heard of a few people getting charge an astronomical price when they picked up items from the Post Office that they had delivered to a virtual US address.

No, I just mean that as a transmission medium, fibre can carry orders of magnitude more data with orders of magnitude less latency than any wireless link. There is no contest and there never will be. That's not to say that wireless links can't provide high data rates and low latency; they can, but fibre will always be better.

my survey dates is planned for 2025- 2026. Using Three mobile at the moment. Looked at star link but the cost per month with energy usage and the initial outlay it just doesn't seem worth in. Invested in in ponyting mimo antenna. Have it in the attic at the moment but max speeds now 150mb download and average 40-60 even at peak times. Delighted with that and everything is stable

I'm very pro NBI (or at least FTTH rollout) but ive been on Starlink for the last few months now.

Speeds average 200Mb down and 35 up. Ping is usually around the 35- 50ms zone.

Facebook services are unusable on it. That includes mainly Facebook and Instagram

Id highly recommend it if you can afford/justify the cost but at 100 euro a month it is crazy expensive and that honestly is the major negative.

Ignore the likes that say starlink is the future on here as its widely known a number of testers are not even being charged by starlink as they are "testing" for them.

That's interesting about the Facebook services? Is that a known issue? Did you dig any little bit to see if FB resources are loading more slowly (using the likes of the browser developer tools).

They have acknowledged it on one of their FAQs that some services don't run well on it and they are working on it, but it looks to be an ongoing problem since day 1 from trawling through reddit.

Only seems to impact Facebook and Instagram, I've had no issues with anything else to be fair. Issue occurs on the web browser too though. Some say opening specific ports help but you need your own router for this. Something il check on my own at some point.

The way I'm currently trying to justify the price is that its costing me 45 euro extra a month vs what I would be paying for much slower speeds on a wisp. I need the upload and unlimited cap it gives. The hope is they eventually drop the price of the monthly sub to something more reasonable. Im 2025/26 on the NBP too so at least 5 more years of this.

Plenty of NBP detractors on here. Messr1 or something is regularly on about it. A good few on Twitter too. As you say, no idea why looking at cost alone never mind how much better FTTH is, but again if you're nor getting charged by starlink then id be hesitant to trust them.

I also use VPN and zoom etc for work and it's been perfect bar the sporadic outages from time to time. It also held up very well with multiple downloads and call happening at once.

You could use wifi calling on an EIR postpay sim as an alternative. You'd have an 085 number but instead of your smart phone pinging the nearest 2/3/4/5G tower it would be connected to your home wifi from Starlink. The call voice traffic would then routed to the LEO satellites overhead.

Imagine replaced my antena and router and it solved my issue, so not looking at starlink, for now. Have to say I'm impressed by what I read about it, except for the price! Game changer for people that don't have an alternative though.