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I live on the Western Isles of Scotland I tried random places near me to see if they show up on Starlink The nearest one to me is Stornoway (the main town on

I live on the Western Isles of Scotland I tried random places near me to see if they show up on Starlink The nearest one to me is Stornoway (the main town on Harris) I am about 50 miles away from it Would this solution work? Currently I am happy with my 4G internet but always interested to try something else. https://www.google.com/maps/place/57%C2%B038'54.0%22N+7%C2%B014'49.9%22W/@57.648337,-7.2493827,17z/data=!4m6!3m5!1s0x0:0x0!7e2!8m2!3d57.6483367!4d-7.2471936 https://www.google.com/maps/place/57%C2%B038'54.0%22N+7%C2%B... Also the Satellite doesn't look like it would do well in a coastal area with saltwater.

andrewaylett 6y ago
Try using a Plus Code? The link you sent is 9C9MRJ9C+XP (visible in the left panel of Google Maps when you click on a location) which isn't on land and is rejected by the Starlink website, but "V84R+RR Isle of Scalpay" (the nearest land) gives me the same pricing as I see for my location in Edinburgh. So I suspect you'd be fine.
- mothsonasloth 6y ago
  Thanks, I sent the wrong link (updated) The plus code for my area returns nothing, however for a satellite that is ~500km above me, surely subscribing to a location that is 27 miles away from me won't make a difference?
  - andrewaylett 6y ago
    No idea why the Starlink website won't recognise the short Plus Code, especially when it shortens the full code if I put that in :P. Your area code is "9C9J", making your full code "9C9JJQX3+84". As an aside, plus codes should be wonderful things but the tooling isn't particularly well built out -- this is the first application I've seen using them that's not Google Maps, and it's not worked as well as I'd hoped it would :(. In this case, the geocoder for the area hasn't done what it ought to have done. And I fear that while the full codes don't need a geocoder, short codes might be generally susceptible to incompatible geocoders leading to incompatibilities between implementations. Which is what we seem to be seeing here.

andrewaylett 6y ago

Try using a Plus Code? The link you sent is 9C9MRJ9C+XP (visible in the left panel of Google Maps when you click on a location) which isn't on land and is rejected by the Starlink website, but "V84R+RR Isle of Scalpay" (the nearest land) gives me the same pricing as I see for my location in Edinburgh. So I suspect you'd be fine.

mothsonasloth 6y ago
Thanks, I sent the wrong link (updated) The plus code for my area returns nothing, however for a satellite that is ~500km above me, surely subscribing to a location that is 27 miles away from me won't make a difference?
- andrewaylett 6y ago
  No idea why the Starlink website won't recognise the short Plus Code, especially when it shortens the full code if I put that in :P. Your area code is "9C9J", making your full code "9C9JJQX3+84". As an aside, plus codes should be wonderful things but the tooling isn't particularly well built out -- this is the first application I've seen using them that's not Google Maps, and it's not worked as well as I'd hoped it would :(. In this case, the geocoder for the area hasn't done what it ought to have done. And I fear that while the full codes don't need a geocoder, short codes might be generally susceptible to incompatible geocoders leading to incompatibilities between implementations. Which is what we seem to be seeing here.