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 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 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 >> > >> > _______________________________________________ >> > Starlink mailing list >> > Starlink@lists.bufferbloat.net >> > https://lists.bufferbloat.net/listinfo/starlink >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Starlink mailing list >> Starlink@lists.bufferbloat.net >> https://lists.bufferbloat.net/listinfo/starlink >> > _______________________________________________ > Starlink mailing list > Starlink@lists.bufferbloat.net > https://lists.bufferbloat.net/listinfo/starlink > -- Bruce Perens K6BP