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 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