> For example in Australia they are upgrading our fibre network to 1Gbps which is 10x the speed of Starlink.
I don't know of anyone using Starlink in areas with fibre, only rural areas with no fibre.
I don't know of anyone using Starlink in areas with fibre, only rural areas with no fibre.
And you only need to lay fibre once and you can benefit at least for the next century if not longer as we continue to invent new ways to multiplex data.
Starlink was designed for your parents, and everyone else in that situation.
GP was saying that fiber is coming to all rural areas though, so I was wondering if there was any truth to it.
Personally I think anywhere that has copper right now (and my parents do have an old crusty POTS line running to their home) should be built up to fiber - if we could do it before we should be able to do it again.
What? Thats simply not true at all. I'm guessing you don't live in Australia, or you'd realize how much rural area there is, and how ridiculous that sounds.
What is actually happening is some areas previously served by FTTN (fiber to the node) or FTTC (fiber to the curb) or other, older technologies such as coax are being upgraded to FTTP (fiber to the premise), but there are around 500,000 Australian homes and businesses served by fixed wireless (4g) and around 400,000 additional homes and businesses only served by satellite.
I am willing to be corrected, but I have not heard of any plans for the NBN to upgrade anybody currently using a wireless/statellite connection to fiber.
The intention has always been to upgrade everyone to fibre but there is obviously a question of budget and priorities. So in the interim they will continue to align the technologies on speed as best as they can.
But you can skip the queue so to speak if you're willing to pay for it: