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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 […]

Spotify is one of the world’s most popular music apps. Users of Spotify can instantly stream and listen to any song on the Spotify library for as long as they like. Many of our customers use Spotify every day to listen to their favourite songs and although Spotify does use way less data than Netflix, […]

Instagram is one of the most popular social media networks and is a must have app on any active social media users mobile device. The service helps people connect with their friends, follow celebrities, engage with brands and even build businesses. But as a mostly image and video based service, it can use up quite […]

Scammers are pretty good these days. Whether it is on the phone, online or via text message, scammers are getting very good at tricking their victims. Scammers often catch people off guard with realistic looking messages when they least expect it. Scammers often have the goal of gaining money from their victims, or gaining their […]

Don’t worry, even when YouTube, Stan or Netflix has used all your included data you can stay connected and: Monitor the weather Email family and friends Do your internet banking Perform general web browsing Enjoy speed burst speeds above the 25Mbps download speed (when available) Sky Muster Plus is expected to launch on August 8 […]

We all use Wi-Fi almost every single day and so many of our modern devices rely on it to connect to the internet. Some of these include our phones, tablets, laptops, game consoles and smart home devices. Without Wi-Fi we would have cables everywhere in every room in our homes!

The internet is something we all need in our daily lives and we rely on the internet to do almost everything we do these days. Some of these things include online banking, working from home, running a business, kid’s homework, gaming, watching TV shows or movies plus much more. The internet is essentially the centre of all of our lives.

PlayOn is an application that is able to record videos from streaming services such as Netflix, YouTube and more onto someone’s computer. Once recorded, the videos are saved onto the hard drive of the person who recorded it and they can be kept forever and played at any time. The recording of the videos in […]

Many of our customers are in rural regions around Australia. They are often connected with IPSTAR 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. So calling from home with a mobile is often […]

Android devices have become one of the most common items in our daily lives. They consist of both mobile phones and tablets with people essentially carrying them around everywhere each day. But if you have an Android device and you have a dozen apps installed or if you really like your apps, you might have […]

IOS devices are great to have and if you have many of them, they can be linked together and all the content on each device can be downloaded automatically on all other IOS devices. If you’ve subscribed to content like a podcast series or TV show, new episodes can be downloaded and added to your […]