[Starlink] Starlink Roaming

[Larry Press]

David brought his dish to my location -- about fifty miles from his service loacation and in a different cell and it could not connect. We had a clear view of the entire sky. He speculated that that was because it was registered to use a specific ground station that was out of range at my place. Does that seem reasonable?

Larry Press
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From: Starlink <starlink-bounces at lists.bufferbloat.net> on behalf of David Lang <david at lang.hm>
Sent: Monday, February 14, 2022 12:29 PM
To: Jonathan Bennett <jonathanbennett at hackaday.com>
Cc: starlink at lists.bufferbloat.net <starlink at lists.bufferbloat.net>
Subject: Re: [Starlink] Starlink Roaming

I asked starlink about temp service away from my registered location, they said
I have two options

1. formally change the service location (if approved, guaranteed to work, but
you aren't guaranteed to be able to change the service location back)

2. best effort, set it up and try it. Service may perfect, or may be worse (all
the way to non-existant) depending on how many other dishes are in use in the
area.

I've done some limited testing with my dish within about 15 miles of my
registered location (in both cases with less than optimal sky views) and it's
worked without a hitch. I plan to do a test further away this weekend (but in a
less populated area, so I have high hopes)

David Lang

On Mon, 14 Feb 2022, Jonathan Bennett wrote:

> It appears that there is now a system in place for Starlink to re-connect
> even if you are outside your official service cell. For those of us who
> want to use Starlink on vacations or other trips, this is quite the
> development.
>
> --Jonathan Bennett
>
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