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What happens if you just take it there and plug it in?
by csours 5y ago
What happens if you just take it there and plug it in?
- causi 5y agoYeah, that was my first thought. After reports of success from people mounting it to the roof of their RVs I thought you could move it anywhere you wanted.
- Diederich 5y agoEach Dishy is assigned to a specific ground station, so you can freely move it around as long as it's 'close enough' to that ground station. (I don't know the distance by memory..) There's a way to ask Starlink to switch your ground station, which is what people with the RVs are doing.
- AshleyGrant 5y agoYou can physically move it wherever you want, but you have to hope that there is an opening available in the "cell" at the new location, otherwise, you've got a paperweight.
- reportingsjr 5y agoThe dish won't work since it knows where it is via GPS and where it is supposed to be. There is a little bit of tolerance in where the dish can be moved, but certainly not 70 miles of leeway.
- gambiting 5y agoHa, reminds me of the tiny 3G picostations you could get from your mobile operator for a while when 3G was in its infancy - if you said you had really poor signal at your home, they would send you a small 3G station you could use in your home and which used your own internet for data and calls....but the hardware had a GPS built in to make sure it was never moved from the address it was assigned to(otherwise you could take it say, abroad, and make calls with your own numbers without paying for roaming - not that in that specific scenario paying for roaming would have made any sense anyway).
- tinus_hn 5y agoIf you were to take it abroad your provider would also not have a license to use the frequencies it needs.
- Danieru 5y agoThe geo tieing makes more sense as a product of spectrum regulation. If you move the Pico station they might not even own the resulting local spectrum.
- the-dude 5y agoI only ever heard the term Femtocell for this. Also, wouldn't an IP check suffice? Are you sure it had GPS?
- gambiting 5y agoYep - https://www.engadget.com/2007-03-28-hands-on-with-the-samsung-ubicell.html https://www.engadget.com/2007-03-28-hands-on-with-the-samsun... IP would be absolutely trivial to spoof so that's not a proof of anything really.
- jdofaz 5y agoThe one I had years ago did have GPS, I was told the reason was for accurate 911 locating. It was a hassle because we were trying to use it in an office and the GPS antenna needed to be near a window.
- gruez 5y ago>Are you sure it had GPS? AFAIK even regular cell sites have GPS for timing purposes.
- mpmpmpmp 5y agoMy static IP geolocates to a town 50 miles away. So unless it's some list that has good accuracy i wouldn't think so.
- csours 5y agoSo, some cars have a decent antenna/hardware for 4G/5G to WiFi bridge; would it make sense to have a picostation inside the car as a repeater?
- KennyBlanken 5y ago> There is a little bit of tolerance in where the dish can be moved, There is so little tolerance that people are finding the dish only works say, in their driveway because the dish's required location is based off mapping data that puts a certain address at certain coordinates, regardless of where the house is (which might be set back considerably from the road.)
- robalfonso 5y agoHe’s got a video where he tried this and was unable to get it working.