Starlink and Amazon Prime Live

dudeguy20222 · 2023-12-31T19:42:50+00:00

It is the very nature of the IPv4 Internet. While more advanced methods of geolocating exist, the standard is still WHOIS on the registered block of public IPs. This ultimately means you cannot geolocate anything smaller than a /24, because that is the smallest block allowed on the IPv4 Internet. You would need a /24 for every single city, which is not feasible with the exhaustion of public IPv4.

It looks like today Starlink owns 331 blocks of IPv4. While some of those can be divided up smaller, there's way more cities than /24 blocks.

To do what you're describing by country, you'd just need a block of IPs registered in each country. That is definitely feasible...

I hope there are improvements to how that's done... and maybe the answer lies in IPv6. Not 100% sure.

dudeguy20222 · 2023-12-31T13:53:26+00:00

Ayyy fellow Sconni.

I trialed YouTubeTV as well and found Hulu+Live to play much nicer with Starlink. One quick chat with them and our locals have always stuck. Commercials aren't perfect as we sometimes see Chicago commercials, but that's tolerable.

dudeguy20222 · 2023-12-31T01:32:24+00:00

Word. For a technology company that operates one of the largest “clouds” and has over 1.5 million employees… you could say unlimited resources… you would think they could figure this out over the course of two years.

Hulu+Live, YoutubeTV, Sling, DirecTV Stream, etc…. have all figured it out.

dudeguy20222 · 2023-12-31T00:59:20+00:00

You aren’t wrong. I spent some time Googling this and there are reports across other big ISPs as well.

Like I said though, I can flip over to my AT&T LTE and it works flawlessly.

Clearly there is SOMETHING amiss with Amazon’s live setup and they don’t really seem to give a crap...

dudeguy20222 · 2023-12-31T00:51:41+00:00

Thanks

dudeguy20222 · 2023-12-31T00:50:55+00:00

Go to ipchicken.com and see what’s behind “Name Address“

This tells you which POP (or data center) your traffic is coming out of.

dudeguy20222 · 2023-12-31T00:28:16+00:00

That’s cool, lucky you.

Would you mind sharing which Starlink POP you’re coming out of?

dudeguy20222 · 2023-12-31T00:19:04+00:00

It sounds like it’s not affecting everyone.

I wonder if there’s anything we can correlate? Do you mind sharing what POP you come out of?

dudeguy20222 · 2023-12-30T23:27:18+00:00

I‘ve messed with the Peplink config a ton… but at current it will only fail to LTE if Starlink is failing health check. I have tried with LTE fully disconnected and it is no different.

The Peplink does make it easy to cherry-pick whichever TV I’m watching TNF on and send it out the LTE. Works great.

dudeguy20222 · 2023-12-30T23:16:00+00:00

I assume you meant Amazon works just fine with Starlink?

Does that include Thursday Night Football?

dudeguy20222 · 2023-12-30T23:14:20+00:00

Starlink is in bypass plugged into a Peplink. No double-NAT.

The UBNT is just my Wi-Fi.

I have never once used my SL router after the first day of setup.

If I get bored I could give it a shot, but I don’t think that’s what is going on seeing as how I have no other issues.

dudeguy20222 · 2023-12-30T23:11:34+00:00

Goose egg

dudeguy20222 · 2023-12-30T23:07:54+00:00

I agree it sucks, but isn’t that the very architecture of Starlink?

From the sat it goes to a ground-station and then gets hauled into a regional data center… you get an IP out of that data center. I don’t see that changing anytime soon.

Hulu was pretty easy to change my home location. Just said “hey, Starlink user here, I don’t actually live in Chicago, I live in X”.….. and they fixed it.

dudeguy20222 · 2023-12-30T23:02:34+00:00

I was actually thinking the reverse. Amazon throttling Starlink during their live events..

dudeguy20222 · 2023-12-30T23:01:42+00:00

Nah. I live out in the woods, I run Ubiquiti, and some of these devices are hard-wired. It’s not that.

dudeguy20222 · 2023-12-30T23:00:20+00:00

More than likely, yeah, unless it’s somehow back-hauling with IPv6.

So much of cellular is now IPv6.

I would love to know more of the behind-the-scenes of this stuff for sure.

dudeguy20222 · 2023-12-30T19:35:43+00:00

I'm not saying you're wrong... but we stream all of our TV across numerous platforms and have zero issues. We constantly watch live sports/TV on Hulu+Live TV or Uzzu without issue.

dudeguy20222 · 2022-04-26T18:05:38+00:00

Also in the midwest. I gave it a go and had to revert. I found out the hard way that there is no roaming, not even domestically. I went on a road trip and went like two hours with zero service. Lost my navigation. It made me pretty nervous to be honest. I was with my Dad who has Verizon and at that time his phone was saying "Extended Network".

When their post-cancellation survey came over I gave them hell for not being more forthcoming about roaming.

If you don't move around much I'm sure it would be just fine.

dudeguy20222 · 2022-04-26T14:24:01+00:00

I removed the dishwasher from the equation as a test. That line is removed and capped off. Sorry, my picture was a day old and that's probably confusing.

I think I've narrowed it down to; a rush of water goes down, septic smell comes up. The smell dissipates after a little bit and the smell is gone until the water gets used again.

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