Thread: 100% NZ mobile coverage via SpaceX Starlink

Brought the starlink kit two weeks ago for 468, now on special at 199. Piss me off...

Performance is better by far than Spark, Vodafone and 2 degrees where I am - but. The kit only comes with a useless lawn mount that won't bolt anywhere meaning you need to buy some other sort of mount to bolt it up permanently to something... Also the inbuilt router is utter shite, it's garbage. Can't do any of the normal router things that you need if you have a NAS or a device attached to your router and you need to run a static IP for it, so you need to bypass that garbage piece of junk (which means turning off the wifi mode and running it as a LAN hard connection only direct to a real router - this means buying an ethernet adapter for $65). Also the parts are in short supply for some reason, still waiting on a wall mount bracket to get the dam dish off the lawn. Bastards. Starlink is a good product, but the company needs to sort it's shite out and start supplying a) better service and decent technical installation information as in bypass mode you need to static IP the starlink router and address it in the wifi router you end up using so that app (which is the only way of adjusting the things settings) can communicate. Not ideal and actually bloody frustrating when you are used to logging into the router from an IP address like normal and having all the features at your mouse click and b) have all the bits and gear actually there in stock...

Also, the marine and RV products seem to have this thing where they want you to park up to use the internet, not sure what thats about as marine when you aren't on watch it would be awesome to have streaming internet available. A swing and a miss there! But the concept of whole-of-country communications is just absolutely brilliant - if it works as advertised (and as it's Vodafone/one nz I have my doubts to be fair as they are the masters of the cockup) I will definitely be into it. I'm a Spark contract and Voda prepay user for the areas where Spark isn't so I can really see the benefits of this concept but I expect I will still need another company connection.