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No one cared who I was until I put on the mask
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Originally Posted By Drugmanrx: Price increase inbound https://www.ar15.com/media/mediaFiles/326156/Screenshot_20220322-161435_Gmail_jpg-2322746.JPG View Quote I'm glad I pulled the trigger on my kit right away. Had I waited two hours, I would have had to pay the higher price. |
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You get a $1,000,000,000,000 & you get a trillion$
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I guess I drank the Kool Aid because I don’t have mine yet and I’m okay with a price increase. It’s been over a year since putting the deposit down, and as of 5 minutes ago, service is scheduled to expand in my AO next month. Fingers crossed.
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I'm not going to bitch about $10 more. If it starts getting close to $150 I will
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Originally Posted By RyanEsstac: I'm not going to bitch about $10 more. If it starts getting close to $150 I will View Quote If I am paying $110, I better be allowed to move it and Starlink actually supports relocating the dish. In my test moves I have been locked out of my HQ service address several times until a slot opened up (I had to click refresh several times a day until it was open again and I grabbed it.). |
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Originally Posted By CavScout: If I am paying $110, I better be allowed to move it and Starlink actually supports relocating the dish. In my test moves I have been locked out of my HQ service address several times until a slot opened up (I had to click refresh several times a day until it was open again and I grabbed it.). View Quote is there a detail map of the hexes? moving about 10 miles this summer and not sure if I will still be in the same one. |
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Originally Posted By CavScout: If I am paying $110, I better be allowed to move it and Starlink actually supports relocating the dish. In my test moves I have been locked out of my HQ service address several times until a slot opened up (I had to click refresh several times a day until it was open again and I grabbed it.). View Quote View All Quotes View All Quotes Originally Posted By CavScout: Originally Posted By RyanEsstac: I'm not going to bitch about $10 more. If it starts getting close to $150 I will If I am paying $110, I better be allowed to move it and Starlink actually supports relocating the dish. In my test moves I have been locked out of my HQ service address several times until a slot opened up (I had to click refresh several times a day until it was open again and I grabbed it.). I believe the enterprise/professional one gives you all the access you could want. Let's be honest. $110 is a steal for people with no other way of getting highspeed. Then let's not forget no data caps. In the past anyone remote getting any kind of service was usually data capped. |
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Originally Posted By Orion_Shall_Rise: is there a detail map of the hexes? moving about 10 miles this summer and not sure if I will still be in the same one. View Quote I think there is, but I am wondering if that REALLY matters [within say 22 miles ], or if it is to just try and thwart folks from getting the gear and an account and using it outside of the area that they have authorized. |
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Originally Posted By JoseCuervo: I think there is, but I am wondering if that REALLY matters [within say 22 miles ], or if it is to just try and thwart folks from getting the gear and an account and using it outside of the area that they have authorized. View Quote View All Quotes View All Quotes Originally Posted By JoseCuervo: Originally Posted By Orion_Shall_Rise: is there a detail map of the hexes? moving about 10 miles this summer and not sure if I will still be in the same one. I think there is, but I am wondering if that REALLY matters [within say 22 miles ], or if it is to just try and thwart folks from getting the gear and an account and using it outside of the area that they have authorized. Oh it will give you internet for a few minutes, then cut out every few seconds and tell you your not at the registered address. |
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Originally Posted By Orion_Shall_Rise: is there a detail map of the hexes? moving about 10 miles this summer and not sure if I will still be in the same one. View Quote You can zoom in here; https://satellitemap.space/# |
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Musk has stated or suggested that mobile Starlink is coming or may be coming or will come when their usual optimistic schedule has been rendered useless.
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Originally Posted By RyanEsstac: Oh it will give you internet for a few minutes, then cut out every few seconds and tell you your not at the registered address. View Quote View All Quotes View All Quotes Originally Posted By RyanEsstac: Originally Posted By JoseCuervo: Originally Posted By Orion_Shall_Rise: is there a detail map of the hexes? moving about 10 miles this summer and not sure if I will still be in the same one. I think there is, but I am wondering if that REALLY matters [within say 22 miles ], or if it is to just try and thwart folks from getting the gear and an account and using it outside of the area that they have authorized. Oh it will give you internet for a few minutes, then cut out every few seconds and tell you your not at the registered address. So the payroll angle was only good for awhile? |
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Originally Posted By JoseCuervo: So the payroll angle was only good for awhile? View Quote View All Quotes View All Quotes Originally Posted By JoseCuervo: Originally Posted By RyanEsstac: Originally Posted By JoseCuervo: Originally Posted By Orion_Shall_Rise: is there a detail map of the hexes? moving about 10 miles this summer and not sure if I will still be in the same one. I think there is, but I am wondering if that REALLY matters [within say 22 miles ], or if it is to just try and thwart folks from getting the gear and an account and using it outside of the area that they have authorized. Oh it will give you internet for a few minutes, then cut out every few seconds and tell you your not at the registered address. So the payroll angle was only good for awhile? Talk to me like a child.... what do you mean? It basically turns on, finds a satellite gets internet, figures out your in the wrong spot... then you're fucked. EDIT: I just reread that. I changed the address to the location of the camp site. I had good internet the entire time we had the generator running. If you don't change the address, what I posted above this line is true. |
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Originally Posted By RyanEsstac: Talk to me like a child.... what do you mean? It basically turns on, finds a satellite gets internet, figures out your in the wrong spot... then you're fucked. EDIT: I just reread that. I changed the address to the location of the camp site. I had good internet the entire time we had the generator running. If you don't change the address, what I posted above this line is true. View Quote On a previous page I had the impression that even if you were miles away from your delivery address, if you had a dish and an account, everything would be fine.- It now sounds like that didn't work out? No offenses meant, it just should be confirmed, detail wise, before folks may think they can head off wherever if they have the hardware. ETA: The new software is too funny! Ryan beat me with an edit via Brownells. |
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The second dish I have is was registered to an address on an island west-northwest of its true position. At first it got a good signal and worked well.... then when it figured out your in the wrong location it cut out constantly and claimed there was a shitload of obstructions that were not there..... I changed to a slightly different location (as close as I could move it) which was north by about 10-15 miles. It became FAR more consistent only cutting out a few seconds every once in a while.
It seems like to me, that it will turn on and find a connection. Then after an hour it figures out it doesn't belong at that location and will prove it to you. |
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Originally Posted By RyanEsstac: The second dish I have is was registered to an address on an island west-northwest of its true position. At first it got a good signal and worked well.... then when it figured out your in the wrong location it cut out constantly and claimed there was a shitload of obstructions that were not there..... I changed to a slightly different location (as close as I could move it) which was north by about 10-15 miles. It became FAR more consistent only cutting out a few seconds every once in a while. It seems like to me, that it will turn on and find a connection. Then after an hour it figures out it doesn't belong at that location and will prove it to you. View Quote |
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Just got mine delivered yesterday. I got in just before the price increase.
Just hooked it up this morning. Download speeds are ranging anywhere from 150-250 mbps. I’m in rural Maine and we’ve been using DSL that typically only got about 2 mbps cause that was all we had access to. |
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Originally Posted By Downeast_Pete: Just got mine delivered yesterday. I got in just before the price increase. Just hooked it up this morning. Download speeds are ranging anywhere from 150-250 mbps. I’m in rural Maine and we’ve been using DSL that typically only got about 2 mbps cause that was all we had access to. View Quote Congrats! We were getting a whopping .48 mbps on our AT&T nighthawk router last night. |
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Moved my radome to my mast to make room for the Starlink dish on the back of my boat. I have a feeling I’ll be staring at that empty space where the dish is supposed to mount for a long long time.
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After 9 days of use, we've had heavy rain with lightning, a heavy snow storm, sleet and today the wind hit 51mph. My only outage was for ~40seconds on the front end of the snowstorm, I think the heater got behind for a minute.
I had ordered my first one for internet service at my cabin, but after a winter of shitty Mediacom cable cutting out multiple times a day and 3 days of work lost so they could be let in to the house to "check the signal" with nothing fixed...this one is staying on my roof at home and i'm getting a second for the cabin. |
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You get a $1,000,000,000,000 & you get a trillion$
MI, USA
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Originally Posted By Downeast_Pete: Just got mine delivered yesterday. I got in just before the price increase. Just hooked it up this morning. Download speeds are ranging anywhere from 150-250 mbps. I’m in rural Maine and we’ve been using DSL that typically only got about 2 mbps cause that was all we had access to. View Quote What was your estimated service date in the app last time you looked? I'm scheduled for service to expand in my area next month and want to get a realistic expectation on if they are meeting their dates now. I've been bumped once so far, from Mid-late summer '21 to April '22. |
The strongest reason for the people to retain the right to keep and bear arms is, as a last resort, to protect themselves against tyranny in government. - Thomas Jefferson
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No one cared who I was until I put on the mask
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Originally Posted By MidMichHunter: What was your estimated service date in the app last time you looked? I'm scheduled for service to expand in my area next month and want to get a realistic expectation on if they are meeting their dates now. I've been bumped once so far, from Mid-late summer '21 to April '22. View Quote View All Quotes View All Quotes Originally Posted By MidMichHunter: Originally Posted By Downeast_Pete: Just got mine delivered yesterday. I got in just before the price increase. Just hooked it up this morning. Download speeds are ranging anywhere from 150-250 mbps. I’m in rural Maine and we’ve been using DSL that typically only got about 2 mbps cause that was all we had access to. What was your estimated service date in the app last time you looked? I'm scheduled for service to expand in my area next month and want to get a realistic expectation on if they are meeting their dates now. I've been bumped once so far, from Mid-late summer '21 to April '22. I got a notification that mine was ready to ship this week. I check the estimate every now and then, and it was last estimated mid-22. So if yours shows next month, yours is probably immanent. |
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You get a $1,000,000,000,000 & you get a trillion$
MI, USA
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The strongest reason for the people to retain the right to keep and bear arms is, as a last resort, to protect themselves against tyranny in government. - Thomas Jefferson
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110 a month is cheaper than I was paying for that shitty OTR Mobile 4G LTE that had a 300gb hard cap. Granted it took a while to get to 300gb at 3mbps on a good day if you held your mouth just right with a 700 dollar cell signal booster targeting it’s tower.
We got our Starlink last month. It’s fucking amazing even with our obstructions. 96-97% clearance. We used to dread needing a phone or a windows update when it was like a gigabyte. Now, it’ll smoke it in like 45 seconds. Or, “wow, this is what the 4K tv is supposed to look like,” with zero buffering. |
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Originally Posted By MidMichHunter: What was your estimated service date in the app last time you looked? I'm scheduled for service to expand in my area next month and want to get a realistic expectation on if they are meeting their dates now. I've been bumped once so far, from Mid-late summer '21 to April '22. View Quote Last estimated service date before I got the option to complete order stated “mid 2022”, so i ended up getting it a little earlier than that. Like a lot of posters in this thread, I had done the preorder back in Feb 2021. The date had been pushed back a few times since the preorder. |
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About the same as my Suddenlink account in Mammoth Lakes.. $119
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Once you have paid him the Dane-geld, you never get rid of the Dane. Kipling
Elections, the advance auction of stolen goods. Mencken When words lose their meaning, a people can move neither hand nor foot. Confucius |
You get a $1,000,000,000,000 & you get a trillion$
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Originally Posted By Downeast_Pete: Last estimated service date before I got the option to complete order stated “mid 2022”, so i ended up getting it a little earlier than that. Like a lot of posters in this thread, I had done the preorder back in Feb 2021. The date had been pushed back a few times since the preorder. View Quote Great, thx. It appears we may be getting it this time. I also got on the list Feb '21 so it's been a long wait. |
The strongest reason for the people to retain the right to keep and bear arms is, as a last resort, to protect themselves against tyranny in government. - Thomas Jefferson
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No one cared who I was until I put on the mask
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Originally Posted By MidMichHunter: Great, thx. It appears we may be getting it this time. I also got on the list Feb '21 so it's been a long wait. View Quote View All Quotes View All Quotes Originally Posted By MidMichHunter: Originally Posted By Downeast_Pete: Last estimated service date before I got the option to complete order stated “mid 2022”, so i ended up getting it a little earlier than that. Like a lot of posters in this thread, I had done the preorder back in Feb 2021. The date had been pushed back a few times since the preorder. Great, thx. It appears we may be getting it this time. I also got on the list Feb '21 so it's been a long wait. I was invited to the beta twice but passed since i wasn't set up to load balance two ISP's at the time and it wasn't yet reliable enough to switch to (I work from home). Then I preordered March 1st, '21. Finally got to complete my order this week. |
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Well, I'm out. T-mobile started offering cell network based home internet in my area and I gave it a try.
I'm usually between 50 Mbps - 90 Mbps, unlimited data and $50/month. No cost for equipment. Prior to this we had no home internet other than hot spotting from our cell phones. After the last price increase, combined with a new service availability, I don't see a huge benefit for me. |
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First impressions….
Worth every damn penny. Day one I didn’t position it well, and was having a lot of of issues. Of course a bad storm rolled in that night in top of it. For reference, have three ViaSat dishes and four hotspots(with full building cell boosters) I rotate between. The best ViaSat was decent at best, but highly inconsistent and spotty at worse. The worst one was damn near unusable. It acted like it was always being throttled, even being on the best plan and severely under data caps, yet would still post moderately decent speed test scores (50-50mbs down) with super high ping. But actually try and use it, and good luck. I would have to deal with buffering every 5-10 minutes streaming 360p. ViaSat bill was probably close to $1K a month combined, maybe a little less. Hotspots another $240 or so a month, plus initial investment of equipment. At worst, I seem to be getting 100/10 from both dishes. Which is blazing fast for me rural. I’m over the moon about it. Last few days I have only one outage if 15 seconds that was reported of no signal received(and I’m pretty sure that’s about the time I would have driven in front of it). It’s been damn good, and they are still on the ground in a temporary spot. Have Premium on order as well, excited to see the difference. From everything I’ve read, the people who complain about it or the cost tend to be people who have other options. Even at $110 a month, it is pennies compared to other options that used to be available. I’d gladly pay more as it’s such a value add, primarily because it seems they do have the intention to not overload the network geographically. |
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LIBERTY TRUMPS BUTT-HURT
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I canceled my service after I moved 25 miles away.
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IMO, if you're complaining about the price increase (or cost of hardware), you're not their target market. If you're complaining, it means you have other options. For those of us where HughesNet was the only other option, it's 1) a godsend, and 2) still a great value.
We've had Starlink for a year and it's been a game changer for us. |
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No one cared who I was until I put on the mask
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Starting to think Fedex lost my Starlink kit. Status updated to delayed on Saturday, no movement since. You had one job, Fedex.
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Sticking with 30mbps LTE for $20/month.
Just couldn't pull the trigger when they sent me the email that it was my turn. |
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Originally Posted By motoguy: IMO, if you're complaining about the price increase (or cost of hardware), you're not their target market. If you're complaining, it means you have other options. For those of us where HughesNet was the only other option, it's 1) a godsend, and 2) still a great value. We've had Starlink for a year and it's been a game changer for us. View Quote No shit. I had the "choice" of HughesNet or TCT, which is basically cell towers and antennas. It was at least better than HughesNet, but the upload speed was worse than StarLink and it was $158 a month. |
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Originally Posted By motoguy: IMO, if you're complaining about the price increase (or cost of hardware), you're not their target market. If you're complaining, it means you have other options. For those of us where HughesNet was the only other option, it's 1) a godsend, and 2) still a great value. We've had Starlink for a year and it's been a game changer for us. View Quote I had no other option until about a month ago. Then T-mobile started offering cell based home internet in my location. I’m getting 90 Mbps, no data cap, for $50/month. Now, a big reason that T-mobile pushed service out to my rural location was competition with Starlink. The guy who helped me mentioned that. So, in a way, Starlink did give me an option. But not by offering internet to me, but spurring other companies to compete. |
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No one cared who I was until I put on the mask
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"It's dangerous to be right when the government is wrong"
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Originally Posted By t75fnaco3pwzhd: Just noticed today that Starlink now has a coverage map! https://www.ar15.com/media/mediaFiles/513127/Screenshot_20220328_170411-2329824.png View Quote Well at least ALL the larger city's in Louisiana have access now, the city's that ALREADY have fast internet. |
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Originally Posted By ohioktm250: Well, I'm out. T-mobile started offering cell network based home internet in my area and I gave it a try. I'm usually between 50 Mbps - 90 Mbps, unlimited data and $50/month. No cost for equipment. Prior to this we had no home internet other than hot spotting from our cell phones. After the last price increase, combined with a new service availability, I don't see a huge benefit for me. View Quote I signed up for T-Mobile 5G internet, i'm sure glad I did not get a covid vax , and I get 170 down and 90 up. SO much faster than ATT DSL!! Have not cancelled and got my deposit back yet from starlink, waiting to see how T-Mobile does and I will decide which to go with if ever I get notified that my starlink order is ready. |
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No one cared who I was until I put on the mask
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Originally Posted By Klee: Well at least ALL the larger city's in Louisiana have access now, the city's that ALREADY have fast internet. View Quote View All Quotes View All Quotes Originally Posted By Klee: Originally Posted By t75fnaco3pwzhd: Just noticed today that Starlink now has a coverage map! https://www.ar15.com/media/mediaFiles/513127/Screenshot_20220328_170411-2329824.png Well at least ALL the larger city's in Louisiana have access now, the city's that ALREADY have fast internet. They have availability there because there is low demand for it. People can get affordable high speed internet from other providers. |
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Originally Posted By t75fnaco3pwzhd: They have availability there because there is low demand for it. People can get affordable high speed internet from other providers. View Quote View All Quotes View All Quotes Originally Posted By t75fnaco3pwzhd: Originally Posted By Klee: Originally Posted By t75fnaco3pwzhd: Just noticed today that Starlink now has a coverage map! https://www.ar15.com/media/mediaFiles/513127/Screenshot_20220328_170411-2329824.png Well at least ALL the larger city's in Louisiana have access now, the city's that ALREADY have fast internet. They have availability there because there is low demand for it. People can get affordable high speed internet from other providers. I thought the whole point was to get high speed internet for those out in the sticks like me. |
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No one cared who I was until I put on the mask
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Originally Posted By Klee: I thought the whole point was to get high speed internet for those out in the sticks like me. View Quote View All Quotes View All Quotes Originally Posted By Klee: Originally Posted By t75fnaco3pwzhd: Originally Posted By Klee: Originally Posted By t75fnaco3pwzhd: Just noticed today that Starlink now has a coverage map! https://www.ar15.com/media/mediaFiles/513127/Screenshot_20220328_170411-2329824.png Well at least ALL the larger city's in Louisiana have access now, the city's that ALREADY have fast internet. They have availability there because there is low demand for it. People can get affordable high speed internet from other providers. I thought the whole point was to get high speed internet for those out in the sticks like me. You want them to arbitrarily decide whether each customer has access to other options and deny them based on this decision? |
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Been waiting well over a year here outside Birmingham, just loaded a fictitious address into their website and it says the system is at capacity. So I guess I'll be happy with shitty 3mb Windstream for a while longer.
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Originally Posted By Klee: I thought the whole point was to get high speed internet for those out in the sticks like me. View Quote View All Quotes View All Quotes Originally Posted By Klee: Originally Posted By t75fnaco3pwzhd: Originally Posted By Klee: Originally Posted By t75fnaco3pwzhd: Just noticed today that Starlink now has a coverage map! https://www.ar15.com/media/mediaFiles/513127/Screenshot_20220328_170411-2329824.png Well at least ALL the larger city's in Louisiana have access now, the city's that ALREADY have fast internet. They have availability there because there is low demand for it. People can get affordable high speed internet from other providers. I thought the whole point was to get high speed internet for those out in the sticks like me. |
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Originally Posted By t75fnaco3pwzhd: Just noticed today that Starlink now has a coverage map! https://www.ar15.com/media/mediaFiles/513127/Screenshot_20220328_170411-2329824.png View Quote 5 miles from me it's available. If I have a friend in that grid order it would it work in my grid? |
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