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

["Mr. Clif" <clif@eugeneweb.com>]

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Say, does anyone have an idea as to how many terminals will be out at 
burning man and the likelihood that we'll all get service? :-)

     Clif

On 5/13/22 10:28, Bruce Perens wrote:
> 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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