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)


(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 <u.speidel@auckland.ac.nz>
> 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?
>
> $25/month sounds steep but is probably modest in comparison to the roaming
> charges that some cellular providers charge.
>
> On 5/05/2022 7:00 pm, David Lang wrote:
>> received this Wednesday evening.
>> Makes sense,
>>
>> David Lang
>>
>> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
>> Portability Now Available
>>
>> Starlink is excited to announce Portability as an add-on feature for all
>> Starlink customers. Portability enables customers to temporarily move their
>> Starlink to new locations and receive high-speed internet anywhere where
>> Starlink provides active coverage within the same continent. To see active
>> coverage areas, please view the Starlink Availability Map (
>> https://urldefense.com/v3/__http://www.starlink.com/map__;!!P7nkOOY!sj8OeR4-Jc81zUlPLyHWjevs2T7WuFV5ewjaeOYg3m3H3_muO_XNGIDy3-WKuyifj4KWtvvwT-EHPQ$  <https://urldefense.com/v3/__http://www.starlink.com/map__;!!P7nkOOY!sj8OeR4-Jc81zUlPLyHWjevs2T7WuFV5ewjaeOYg3m3H3_muO_XNGIDy3-WKuyifj4KWtvvwT-EHPQ$ > ).
>>
>> You can enable Portability for $25/month on your account page (
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