nbn Sky Muster Satellite

 

• The new NBN Satellite Sky Muster became available from April 2016 as part of the Long Term Satellite Service (LTSS).  It is expected to service between 200,000 – 400,000 residences.  It will be available to residents who can not access NBN Fixed or Fixed Wireless technologies.

Sky Muster Facts:

• nbn™ Long Term Satellite Service (LTSS) (compiled by BIRRR* 14/10/15, updated 1/11/16)
• Long Term Satellite (Sky Muster) Fair Use Policy nbn™ 
  • nbn co requires each customer to limit their Data Usage to no more than 150 GB in any four week period.
  • Furthermore, nbn co requires each customer to limit their Peak Hour Data Usage to no more than 75 GB in any four week period.
  • nbn co requires all RSPs to limit their average customer Peak Hour Data Usage to no more than 30 GB of downloads and no more than 5 GB of uploads in any four week period.
    
• What are Sky Muster Spot Beams ?
• Sky Muster™ nbn™ Long Term Satellite Information (compiled by BIRRR* 15/12/15)
• How to Find Sky Muster in the Sky

Getting Connected to Sky Muster:

• How to get a NBN connection ?
• Preparing for Sky Muster™ compiled by John Kitchener for BIRRR 28/2/16
• Sky Muster Service Providers
• Sky Muster Satellite Modem – Power Consumption compiled by John Kitchener for BIRRR

Routers & Telephony:

• Sky Muster Routers (compiled by John Kitchener for BIRRR 6/5/16)
• Alternate Voice Telephony  (compiled by BIRRR 7/1/16)
• VOIP on Sky Muster (compiled by John Kitchener for BIRRR 2/6/16)

Education Services on SKY MUSTER:

• nbn™ Education Port for Distance Education Students (updated 2/6/16)
• Education Services over Sky Muster End User Guide

 

NB: NBN Interim satellite service (ISS) was designed to be used by those who could NOT get any other type of broadband connection, installations were between 2011 – 2013 to approximately 40,000 Australian residences. ISS is not an active service.

 

 

All Sky Muster articles

• Alternate Voice Telephony
• Alternative Voice Services Using the Internet
• Complaining to the TIO
• Contact a Politician
• Controlling Internet Data Usage with Gargoyle Router
• Finding SkyMuster
• How Do I Get nbn™ ?
• How to change YouTube Quality to reduce your data usage
• How to find your Latitude and Longitude using Google Maps
• How to power cycle a device
• How to use your off-peak data
• Landline Phones and the Universal Service Obligation (USO)
• NBN ‘FAIR USE’ policy & actions
• nbn Sky Muster Educational Port ?
• nbn Sky Muster Plus
• NBN Sky Muster Satellite – the Facts
• PlayOn Cloud
• Preparing For nbn™ Sky Muster™
• Problems with your NBN connection?
• QANTAS and SkyMuster
• SKY MUSTER PLANS BETTER FOR THE BUSH, BUT FOR HOW LONG?
• Sky Muster Routers
• SkyMuster Rollout
• Temporary fixes to Sky Muster internet connection problems July 2016
• Using iConnect on Sky Muster (QLD Dept. of Education)
• Using PlayOn Desktop to Schedule Off Peak Video Downloads
• VoWIFI or WIFI Calling
• Web Page Optimisation (WPO)
• What are Sky Muster spot beams?
• What is unmetering and how does it work?
• Windows 10 – Set connection to metered to save data

*Please note, while all care has been taken in compiling BIRRR documents, we recommend that you check with NBN or your ISP regarding your own connection issues.