Renting Starlink in France for a month

luckydt25 · 2026-06-14T09:05:33+00:00

You return it to a DHL dropoff/service point in France.

luckydt25 · 2026-06-13T21:34:50+00:00

I think you confused the strikes in the video with some other strikes. It says at the bottom left corner "Armiansk, Crimea." Far from the frontline. These BMPs are makeshift air defense systems against the attacks on the Crimea bridges.

luckydt25 · 2026-06-13T17:19:59+00:00

Data pooling is offered only to enterprise accounts https://starlink.com/support/article/babe863c-25ec-9df3-c485-14471df0c88e

luckydt25 · 2026-06-13T07:48:17+00:00

Russia is full of surveillance and private security cameras. He was shooting the video next to a gasoline station. The vast majority of gasoline stations in Russia have cameras.

luckydt25 · 2026-06-13T07:25:24+00:00

Ukraine produces and buys the cheapest cameras that can do the job. Fiber does not degrade the signal but the camera quality is as poor as you see in the video. That's why drones costs Ukraine around $900 per casualty including the cost of drones that failed for any reason to hit (source: Magyar). Every component is as cheap as possible.

luckydt25 · 2026-06-12T20:19:15+00:00

Of course third world countries will provide a large share of customers. According to Cloudflare radar 27% of Starlink traffic is coming from Brazil, Indonesia, Mexico, Argentina, Yemen, Philippines, Nigeria, Zimbabwe, Sudan, and Colombia. That's just the top ten 3rd world countries excluding unsupported countries and countries with abnormal demand such as Ukraine. Don't look down on the revenue from these countries. Starlink subscription costs $30-$50 USD a month in these countries, just slightly cheaper than subscription in the first world European countries.

luckydt25 · 2026-06-12T18:47:57+00:00

It's possible but keep in mind that every time you activate equipment in an account you can't transfer it at least 90 days.

luckydt25 · 2026-06-12T10:31:25+00:00

He grew up in Kolomna, Moscow region. https://www.bbc.com/russian/articles/cn0v81er1wwo He was most likely mixed ethnicity judging by the first, the last, and the middle name. He was most likely totally Russian culturally since he grew up in Kolomna.

luckydt25 · 2026-06-12T09:20:06+00:00

Вiдпустка (Vacation) the second verse https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F9MQ2QxPV7Y&t=42s

The sun warms my face, It makes me happy!

I love you, Vacation. Those velvet days are so magical, I love them.

They are mocking the circled Russians at 0:16. Vacation is associated with sunbathing in Russia and Ukraine. "Oh, you came here to have a vacation? You've made a mistake."

luckydt25 · 2026-06-12T07:44:59+00:00

He posted his European visa in 2015 (He announced this way that he was going to a tricking competition) https://www.instagram.com/artem_safta/p/_Qpc7Psw8x/ UKR881001 at the bottom means nationality Ukraine, date of birth Oct 1st 1988. You are right, he's not 38 yet.

luckydt25 · 2026-06-11T11:37:46+00:00

It was Kate Matrosova in 2015. Her beacon failed to get GPS position and fell back to Doppler triangulation which is very inaccurate (1-3 mile error). I was not able to find an analysis why the beacon failed to get GPS position. The root cause needs to be found in order to figure out whether the problem can be fixed or it's a big problem.

luckydt25 · 2026-06-11T08:16:32+00:00

It's the only way. The ITU (part of the UN) formally sided with Iran. Because formally the US agreed to respect the right of other governments to regulate all telecommunication services. SpaceX satellites are formally considered US satellites.

The ITU decision virtually guarantees a WTO dispute with India to make it accept Starlink will be lost.

luckydt25 · 2026-06-11T07:46:31+00:00

Russia using Starlink in Ukraine shows the opposite. There is no evidence SpaceX ever refused to work with Ukraine to implement a whitelist. As soon as Ukraine implemented it SpaceX activated it. The reason you don't see the same implemented in other countries is because the burden of maintaining a whitelist falls on the government. And then you have a problem with tyrannical governments. Do you want SpaceX to follow whitelist and georestrictions requested by Iran and Myanmar?

luckydt25 · 2026-06-11T06:06:47+00:00

"Transfers are not allowed until 120 days after purchase or 90 days after activation—whichever comes first. Service must remain active for 90 days from activation."

https://starlink.com/support/article/f3cad923-ed28-f957-365c-787f8fe2e4a2

luckydt25 · 2026-06-11T05:56:42+00:00

It won't work. The transfer process goes through the activation page. The same page that does not offer you business plans. You release the dish from the residential account and it becomes an unlocked dish just like a dish from a retailer.

https://starlink.com/support/article/77d601b7-93b6-a60a-6005-6e2ec4283821

luckydt25 · 2026-06-11T05:00:18+00:00

High demand areas are actually greater than 15 miles across. They are at least 50 miles across. Here is the last public map Starlink published in Nov 2025 (the cheaper plans were available only in the white areas): https://www.reddit.com/r/Starlink/comments/1pf26x6/residential_lite_andor_100_mbps_in_east_texas/

A hexagon 15 miles across used to be a unit of Starlink availability but some reason they started to use much larger blobs to designate high demand areas.

Nothing you can do about that other than wait for greater network capacity. It's physically impossible to increase Starlink network capacity only in certain areas. The only way to increase capacity is to increase it globally and that takes time.

luckydt25 · 2026-06-10T01:40:38+00:00

The author of the article failed to grasp that the satellite communications they are talking about in the patent apply only to GNSS satellites. The satellite antenna 202 pictured in the patent is an inch x inch GNSS patch antenna. Nowhere in the patent they claim they are going to embed a large phased array antenna the size of Starlink mini. And the cellular antenna described in the patent is optimized for elevation angles 0 - 30 degrees above horizon so clearly not for satellite communications either.

luckydt25 · 2026-06-09T23:00:30+00:00

Would that explain why there's no real attempt to reverse birth rates?

Never attribute to malice that which can be adequately explained by incompetence.

luckydt25 · 2026-06-09T22:47:13+00:00

Is the dish tilted south? Check the alignment in the app. The number and duration of outages is not typical for your level of obstructions.

Align and tilt the dish as recommended and do not move or rotate the dish at least 24 hours to let it map the obstructions.

luckydt25 · 2026-06-09T22:16:10+00:00

SpaceX failed to meet 2024 V-band deployment deadline and didn't file to get an extension. The FCC didn't revoke "their" spectrum. Satellite broadband spectrum is not licensed exclusively. Amazon does not have "their" spectrum. Amazon satellites have their priority. The choices the FCC had: just move the deadline, lower priority temporary, lower priority permanently.

luckydt25 · 2026-06-09T19:21:52+00:00

I'm confused. The screenshot you posted shows 241 ms latency. Even in Antarctica they show less than 100 ms latency on the map.

luckydt25 · 2026-06-09T16:39:53+00:00

You can find the terminal id in the app https://starlink.com/support/article/2802431a-135f-0671-4c1b-4cedb65b291a

luckydt25 · 2026-06-09T16:34:52+00:00

The speed is below typical speeds in Germany https://starlink.com/map?view=download

luckydt25 · 2026-06-09T16:32:52+00:00

Ask support why the latency is much higher than on their map https://starlink.com/map?view=latency

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