Re: [Starlink] ch-ch-ch-ch-changes!

[Bruce Perens <bruce@perens.com>]

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Our Starlink came on in Berkeley after a half hour or so. Unfortunately
there are too many trees around its present location, so it will be moving
to my off-grid site and no Starlink at home for now.

    Thanks

    Bruce

On Fri, May 13, 2022 at 9:09 AM Nathan Owens <nathan@nathan.io> wrote:

> It will presumably work for now, but if you have "roaming: True" in the
> gRPC data, you'll likely have to pay another $25/mo for Portability, and
> accept slower/degraded service.
>
> On Fri, May 13, 2022 at 9:07 AM Mr. Clif <clif@eugeneweb.com> wrote:
>
>> Hi guys,
>>
>> After waiting for over a year, a couple of weeks ago, our Starlink
>> terminal finally arrived. The original orders I placed never panned out,
>> and eventually were canceled, but when I heard about the new service map
>> feature on the Starlink site, it took all the guess work out of the
>> order process.
>>
>> I live in Eugene but had to select some small town near the coast to
>> place the order. When it arrived, I tried to install the starlink app on
>> 3 (Three) different android devices, but it refused... Grrrr. So I found
>> some third party Starlink app and tried that, but it would just exit
>> immediately.
>>
>> Though the surprising thing is, that when I powered it up in Eugene, it
>> just worked without the app and despite Eugene not being available for
>> new service. I also tried it in another town that didn't have service
>> and it just worked. A couple of days later, we moved it about 50 miles
>> from the registered service area, also out in the boonies and it's been
>> working great ever since. Never touched the app, and never turned on
>> roaming.
>>
>> Not sure how typical this is.
>>
>>      Ciao,
>>      Clif
>>
>> On 5/12/22 18:39, Bruce Perens wrote:
>> > Starlink accepted an order for my address in Berkeley, CA, today. They
>> > also let me set the location of the Dishy I already have on hand to
>> > Berkeley, rather than my off-grid location where it hasn't been
>> > installed yet. That did not work before. However, Dishy has had 14
>> > minutes to get on the network, and is still doing what it previously
>> > did - it has 15-second intervals online every 10 minutes or so. I'll
>> > leave it on and see if it starts working.
>> >
>> > Also, my ethernet adapter arrived.
>> >
>> >     Thanks
>> >
>> >     Bruce
>> >
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