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Whether you’re working from home by choice or by necessity, make the most of your nbn™ connection – and workday – with these tips.   While working from home (WFH) has become increasingly common with those seeking flexibility in their careers, it’s likely never been a hotter topic of conversation than now. With the World […]

There are times when you may be at home and the mobile network that usually reaches into your home is no longer working. The mobile network might be down because of a nearby bushfire or another similar disaster. It’s possible to still make calls to friends or family during an emergency through popular apps such […]

Many of our customers are in rural regions around Australia. They are often connected with IPSTAR Broadband on a satellite connection and they have a mobile phone to make calls. But many of our customers live in remote locations where mobile phone coverage is low or non-existent. Making calls from home with a mobile is […]

  In the upcoming holiday season, streaming video content over the internet is going to be more demanding than ever for Australian households. There are now more streaming services than ever before available for Australians with new ones like Disney Plus and Apple TV+ being the latest additions. With Disney Plus being a service that […]

  The holidays are about to begin and that means that the kids will be at home and they’re going to be using the internet a lot more. They’ll be catching up on the latest videos on Netflix or YouTube and playing some of the newest video games over the holidays. This also means they’ll […]

The idea of having a fully automated smart home has been an increasingly popular trend in recent years. It’s now quite common for households to have voice activated assistants such as Amazon’s Alexa or a Google Home. In these homes, with just a couple of sentences from someone’s voice, people have their lights, air conditioners […]

When using the internet on a metered connection with a data limit it can sometimes become hard to track how much data is being used and by which device. With the average home having 10 or more in home devices these days, each of them needs to be tracked individually if you want to find […]

Dark Mode has been becoming increasingly popular in 2019. All over the internet websites are adding dark modes for their customers and many popular mobile app developers are racing each other to bring out their version of dark mode for their app. The popularity of dark mode this year has meant that it’s now widely […]

Netflix is something we use almost every day now and for those who do have it, it’s hard to imagine life without it. While many think they may be Netflix experts, there are tonnes of secrets within the Netflix website that almost nobody knows about.   1. Secret Netflix codes   Inside Netflix there are […]

Twitter is one of the world’s top most used social media websites and we know that our customers always enjoy spending time there. People love to follow their friends, celebrities, favourite brands and political figures. But scrolling through the Twitter newsfeed past all those auto playing videos and high resolution images can use up quite […]

Aussies love their Netflix. More than 11 million  households across Australia now have a subscription to the online streaming service. But constant video streaming and downloading can be a demanding task for our broadband. Finder research shows that 46%  of Aussies who regularly stream experience buffering and dropouts from time to time. If you feel […]

Sky Muster Plus is just around the corner and will be available on the 9th of August 2019. Many eager Sky Muster users will soon be able to enjoy unmetered web browsing, unshaped network traffic for operating system updates and burst download speeds of up to 50 Mbps. At the moment at IPSTAR Broadband we […]