[Starlink] Starlink Roaming

[David Lang]

tonight I took it to a friends house about 25 miles away and within a couple min 
it gave me an error message saying that I wasn't at my assigned location.

David Lang

On Mon, 21 Feb 2022, Larry Press wrote:

> Date: Mon, 21 Feb 2022 07:22:44 +0000
> From: Larry Press <lpress at csudh.edu>
> To: David Lang <david at lang.hm>,
>     Jonathan Bennett <jonathanbennett at hackaday.com>
> Cc: "starlink at lists.bufferbloat.net" <starlink at lists.bufferbloat.net>
> Subject: Re: [Starlink] Starlink Roaming
> 
> 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
> ________________________________
> 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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