remember that starlink is getting coverage from many satellites as they come over, it's not like geostationary satellites that can aim specific antennas at specific locations (i.e. 'spotbeams' are not a thing) In a week or two I'm going to take my dish out and drive around for a few hours (just received the inverter I ordered, now to convert the plugs...) I expect the waitlist is a combination of two things. 1. the number of subscribers already in the area 2. supply availability (I expect this is why Ukraine is a waitlist, they have supplied dishes to the government, but if you try to order one yourself, you would have to wait) David Lang On Thu, 5 May 2022, Ulrich Speidel wrote: > Date: Thu, 5 May 2022 19:40:01 +1200 > From: Ulrich Speidel > To: starlink@lists.bufferbloat.net > Subject: Re: [Starlink] Portability Now Available (fwd) > > Cool. Very interesting! That's one pile of information all of a sudden. They > could do that more often IMHO. > > Nothing like official confirmation that the tropics are an almost > Starlink-free zone, and that places reasonably away from the 53rd parallels > are secondary service zones. They forgot their 50-odd terminals in Tonga (I > heard yesterday about someone in the northern islands who brought a dishy > from overseas and found it didn't work... obviously believed the headlines... > sigh). > > Also interesting that there seems to be, finally, some sort of disclosure on > cell size. Someone will need to explain to me why there are waitlist areas in > the Auckland area surrounded by full service. The areas concerned are rural, > which you'd think they'd want to service with priority over our > well-connected CBD... Too many subscribers there already, or not enough to > warrant a spot beam? Similar soft spots near Sydney, holes in Foveaux Strait, > the Hauraki Gulf, southeast of Murray Bridge in South Australia, southern > Chile, ... What do I read into this? Two-fold: Where it's near 53 degrees, > they're probably oversubscribed or lack terminal supply, or both. Where it's > well away from 53 degrees, I'd guess they probably just lack satellite > capacity full stop. > > Ukraine is waitlisted...? But wait - didn't Starlink just take over the > Internet there? Interesting also that one of the waitlist / no service areas > in Germany is right where they had the floods & where Starlink got deployed > very publicly with (I understand) some success. Did the locals hang on to the > emergency dishys and does this now saturate the network there? And what did > the Greeks do to be all waitlisted? > > So what happens if you roam from a place with availability into a place with > "waitlist" status? Anyone with a dishy up for a road trip with a story to > tell? > > $25/month sounds steep but is probably modest in comparison to the roaming > charges that some cellular providers charge. > > On 5/05/2022 7:00 pm, David Lang wrote: >> received this Wednesday evening. >> Makes sense, >> >> David Lang >> >> ---------- Forwarded message ---------- >> Portability Now Available >> >> Starlink is excited to announce Portability as an add-on feature for all >> Starlink customers. Portability enables customers to temporarily move their >> Starlink to new locations and receive high-speed internet anywhere where >> Starlink provides active coverage within the same continent. To see active >> coverage areas, please view the Starlink Availability Map ( >> http://www.starlink.com/map ). >> >> You can enable Portability for $25/month on your account page ( >> https://starlink.com/account ). Once >> enabled, Portability will take effect immediately, and you can disable >> Portability from your account page at any time. >> >> To learn more about Starlink Portability, please read our FAQ page ( >> http://www.starlink.com/faq ). >> _______________________________________________ >> Starlink mailing list >> Starlink@lists.bufferbloat.net >> https://lists.bufferbloat.net/listinfo/starlink >> > >