Stop at Coles after work. There’s a driveway into the car park that goes between hungry Jack’s and this stupid drive through coffee place.
Bloke is walking out of there with his head buried in his phone. Just as I stop he looks up and gives me a sheepish smile.
He walks past and as I drive on he says something about having the shit scared out of him.
I give him a friendly suggestion about not having his head buried in his phone. Like seriously, friendly.
To which he retorts in pure Canterbury Rd
“Oh fuck off cockhead, I’ll smash your head in!”
I was instantly transported back to Sydney on a humid summer evening, eating chicken, with that overused fry oil and tomato sauce smell lingers in the air whilst a 747 goes over head to land at Mascot …
Finally found a benefit of being in defence. The standard health care is abysmal in Canberra (6+ weeks to see a doctor) but got the red carpet tonight.
Managed to dislocate my pinky toe at jiu jitsu tonight. Called up the nurse and got sent to the emergency department. Rocked up and there’s the usual cast of thousands waiting. Got fast tracked after 45 minutes into another room. Sat down and the doctor popped it back in place. Waited another 10 mins for xrays. Just checking its actually back in place and no major damage. Shound be out within 90 mins.
Makes being killed by China in 5 years worth it I guess.
Getting an email this morning, telling me I get to move back to Sydney for a year I’ll actually get a holiday this year, including xmas off for the first time in 3 years. Looking forward to spending summer at the beach
I was helping Jabbatron with a broadband question in the Computer thread
I decided to look at a bill to confirm my Telstra plan and discovered I’d been paying for their bullshit Platinum support, which I never signed up for, since Nov 2017
I’m moving to a rural block in a couple of months and am looking to sort out internet. Have you noticed any intermittent latency spikes? I’ve heard there’s noticeable spikes in ping when the signal moves from satellite to satellite. Probably not an issue for most, but would be for gaming. Also have you noticed any issues with cloud cover or weather?
I’ve had it for one day, so it’s hard to say yet, for certain.
I ran a ping tracker once I fired it up to see if there are any dead zones during the course of 24hrs. It was overall very stable with a period of instability (spikes of 120 ping latency) from about 4am-430am. I am totally ok with that, but it might be resolvable anyway.
Other than that, I played maybe 90mins of Apex Legends last night and I detected maybe one instance of like .5 sec lag. A hitch that was one and done. Otherwise I had probably the best game of my career. My brother an I matched into trios, without a 3rd and swept the lobby.
From what I understand it is very reliant on line of sight. So trees or other objects on the horizon are your main problem. I have the dish just sitting on the ground next to the house. So I expect it will perform better once it’s mounted on the roof. Also, I understand SpaceX is still launching more satellites and doing other work to their network that will improve it over time.
Like I said it’s only been 1 day, but I’m definitely impressed. I’m not over the moon about giving money to Elon Musk, but with few alternatives, this is just too good of a service to deny.
Sounds pretty good and those speeds are great. I’ll be in a fixed wireless area and the tower is literally about 500m away, however the speeds are going to be disappointing compared to my current 70-80mbps so i’m weighing up my options
How’s your Starlink been after having it a while? I ended up signing up to fixed wireless NBN today through Aussie broadband, i asked about the speeds and they reckon 75 up and 10 down which i can absolutely live with. For now.
I’ll actually get a holiday this year, including xmas off for the first time in 3 years. Looking forward to spending summer at the beach 
