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Signing up cheaper in other countries?

dabigm

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Got my dishy today and i'm considering signing up in France, or Ireland and then adding roaming.
Has anyone done this? If yes, what was the procedure and how long have you done it for?

for what it's worth, it wasn't purchased from Starlink so the kit isn't registered to any account just yet.
 
answering my own question now.
not sure how to do this on the app, but managed to sign up from France on the website / desktop. €56 including roaming. Working fine.
 
answering my own question now.
not sure how to do this on the app, but managed to sign up from France on the website / desktop. €56 including roaming. Working fine.
Is traffic going through to France though? Are you getting content localised in French?
 
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Is traffic going through to France though? Are you getting content localised in French?
I do get located as being in France if it does it via GeoIP lookup yes.
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as for content, no not really everything still in english. and i'm going to be plugging this into OMR anyway so i'll be VPN'd into OVH UK or Ionos UK if that's down.

Seems pretty good. Speed bounces around a bit, and i've just got it sat on the front lawn at the moment and it's doing 188/20

edit: oddly enough, speedtest.net is picking UK servers. ~ 35ms one test told me maidenhead is ~ 50miles away (it is)
 
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you know that's interesting looking at my whatismyip "ISP".
the name kinda hints at london.

LNDNGBR1 sounds very much like london, great britain ...
must be why speedtest thinks Maidenhead is nearby.
 
you know that's interesting looking at my whatismyip "ISP".
the name kinda hints at london.

LNDNGBR1 sounds very much like london, great britain ...
must be why speedtest thinks Maidenhead is nearby.
Interesting, so maybe the starlink roaming is not like we're used to with phones.
Wonder if they'll limit you after a while or charge you extra if you roam for too long. Keep us posted..
 
yeah when i google that question, looks like you get 2 months. i'll see what happens and report back.
 
Interesting, so maybe the starlink roaming is not like we're used to with phones.
Wonder if they'll limit you after a while or charge you extra if you roam for too long. Keep us posted..
i would imagine thinking out loud without having any actual clue, it's probably a case of the cell i'm in is going to be using a ground station in the UK, not France. So one would think, for best performance, that the satellites i'm bouncing off are all using goonhilly or chalfont grove both of which are in UK. So while it might say i'm in france, because of the IP, the data centres and ground stations would all be UK.

That's my theory anyway. Speed seems to just keep increasing the later it gets which is interesting.
 
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answering my own question now.
not sure how to do this on the app, but managed to sign up from France on the website / desktop. €56 including roaming. Working fine.
How did you manage to do this in the UK might consider getting Starlink if it works
 
open up a VPN on your computer, (I couldn't do this on the starlink app, prices continued to be in £££). Go to starlink website, register the kit and select the service you want. it was as simple as that. I used wise (like revolut) to pay in Euros although im not sure if that mattered or not. I picked an address of a supermarket in France as my address and entered that.

I have no idea if this is going to continue to work or not. Or if they'll tell me to move it to a UK address after 2 months? I don't know. But I did pay for roaming, and it works fine in UK after signing up with a French address. One of the people on the discord told me he's done the same and the speed is the same as his UK registered one.

I'm taking the risk doing it and finding out, I don't know how long it will last for. But it's working great and it's almost £35 cheaper than paying for UK price + roaming. I should say that I got kit from currys not from starlink. If you get it from starlink, it will already be registered for you, at your UK address / the address you had it posted to.

One other word of warning, once you set your address to France or elsewhere, you will NOT be able to order accessories like the ethernet adapter etc from the starlink website. It will only allow them to be shipped to the address you chose to sign up using. So in my case, I can only ship accessories to France. I just had to pay £9 extra to get the ethernet adapter from Amazon instead.
 
I have no idea if this is going to continue to work or not. Or if they'll tell me to move it to a UK address after 2 months? I don't know. But I did pay for roaming, and it works fine in UK after signing up with a French address. One of the people on the discord told me he's done the same and the speed is the same as his UK registered one.
That's good to know thanks for the information from what I can see on other websites is the 2 month period is not actively enforced but it might be

Hopefully it works long term as £50 a month including roaming is pretty respectable compared to the UK price of £85
 
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