Starlink ordered… I feel it’s the only sensible option now..

Fragle said:
Revolut. ?

What happened to the uk based Starlink? Did it get past 60 days?
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Not sure on exact dates. I’m just TRYING to swap to a Spanish service at the moment. I think the emails were around 60 days back but can’t quite recall!

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zac said:
Is that because they want a card where it's registered in Spain?
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They can't.It would be illegal under European SEPA rules .an account in any european country is sufficient. Where I have changed to non spanish online accounts for dd's & s/o's I have had to educate a few who 'insisted' upon a "spanish account with only 18 numbers for the IBAN"
 
Carpmart said:
My service was working, well until I kicked off the change process! 🤔😢🤣🤬
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I feel your pain ....just when you think you've got it sorted they decide to ignore you ! 😕

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They took 48 hours to reply to my ticket when I logged it. They are not quick at replying that's for sure
 
Carpmart said:
Still no reply to my ticket!

However… I’M ONLY BLOODY CONNECTED ON A SPANISH SERVICE!!! Hoo bloody ray!!! 🤣🤣
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So… a quick summary which may be useful for others if and when they swap a UK dish to a Spanish (or other) service location and tariff:
  • Your existing subscription needs to have expired on a Californian time basis. This is PST.
  • 00.01 hrs PST is 9hrs behind CET at present.
  • The significance (I believe but can’t confirm, just my logic) of this is yesterday when my subscription to the UK service was expiring, it was on the Starlink clock still active, hence I think this was scuppering my ability to pay for a new subscription as it thought it still had an active UK one!
  • I’ve paid using a Starling Euro account. I could not get this to work with Apple Pay. Use the alternate billing method option and add details manually. I couldn’t get any payment method to work yesterday, which I now attribute to the California (PST) time zone challenge.
  • You have to use a different email address to your existing UK subscription. Send an email to the new address with an invite (option in the account closing process) which then contains all the dish unique identifiers. The link in the new email address received takes you straight into a service selection page (Roam Spain for me) and then to payment.
  • Update the app and the dish before upgrading. I also had to do what I assume was a Spanish update post connecting.
  • I used a Spanish campsite address we frequent regularly which worked fine.
  • You absolutely have to cancel the service completely before starting a new service.
BTW, the effort (not much really) is worth it as the savings are quite significant. €72 (<£60) per month on Spanish roam tariff as opposed to £96 on UK.
 
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Carpmart said:
So… a quick summary which may be useful for others if and when they swap a UK dish to a Spanish (or other) service location and tariff:
  • Your existing subscription needs to have expired on a Californian time basis. This is PST.
  • 00.01 hrs PST is 9hrs behind CET at present.
  • The significance (I believe but can’t confirm, just my logic) of this is yesterday when my subscription to the UK service was expiring, it was on the Starlink clock still active, hence I think this was scuppering my ability to pay for a new subscription as it thought it still had an active UK one!
  • I’ve paid using a Starling Euro account. I could not get this to work with Apple Pay. Use the alternate billing method option and add details manually. I couldn’t get any payment method to work yesterday, which I now attribute to the California (PST) time zone challenge.
  • You have to use a different email address to your existing UK subscription. Send an email to the new address with an invite (option in the account closing process) which then contains all the dish unique identifiers. The link the new email address receives takes you straight into a service selection page (Roam Spain for me) and then to payment.
  • Update the app and the dish before upgrading. I also had to do what I assume was a Spanish update post connecting.
  • You absolutely have to cancel the service completely before starting a new service.
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Jeez, glad I will never be impacted by that :( Glad you are sorted though.
 
Gromett said:
Jeez, glad I will never be impacted by that :( Glad you are sorted though.
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Agree… luckily a one time change for me. Will have a second UK dish soon which I will use in future in Europe for two months until I get to Spain, when I can reactivate the Spanish one! ✔️

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Carpmart said:
Agree… luckily a one time change for me. Will have a second UK dish soon which I will use in future in Europe for two months until I get to Spain, when I can reactivate the Spanish one! ✔️
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Why didn’t you just buy a new dish in Spain? Keeping your original in uk.
That’s what I was thinking of doing in January when I get there.
 
Fragle said:
Why didn’t you just buy a new dish in Spain? Keeping your original in uk.
That’s what I was thinking of doing in January when I get there.
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Running a Gen2 which I’ve got nicely setup running off 13v with everything working perfectly. Only Gen3 or Mini available now. Mini I don’t want so that would leave me trying to sort out miss matched 13v setups and the gen3 is significantly more power hungry. Current set up draws an average of 32W at 13v 😇
 
Carpmart said:
So… a quick summary which may be useful for others if and when they swap a UK dish to a Spanish (or other) service location and tariff:
  • Your existing subscription needs to have expired on a Californian time basis. This is PST.
  • 00.01 hrs PST is 9hrs behind CET at present.
  • The significance (I believe but can’t confirm, just my logic) of this is yesterday when my subscription to the UK service was expiring, it was on the Starlink clock still active, hence I think this was scuppering my ability to pay for a new subscription as it thought it still had an active UK one!
  • I’ve paid using a Starling Euro account. I could not get this to work with Apple Pay. Use the alternate billing method option and add details manually. I couldn’t get any payment method to work yesterday, which I now attribute to the California (PST) time zone challenge.
  • You have to use a different email address to your existing UK subscription. Send an email to the new address with an invite (option in the account closing process) which then contains all the dish unique identifiers. The link in the new email address received takes you straight into a service selection page (Roam Spain for me) and then to payment.
  • Update the app and the dish before upgrading. I also had to do what I assume was a Spanish update post connecting.
  • I used a Spanish campsite address we frequent regularly which worked fine.
  • You absolutely have to cancel the service completely before starting a new service.
BTW, the effort (not much really) is worth it as the savings are quite significant. €72 (<£60) per month on Spanish roam tariff as opposed to £96 on UK.
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Harvey, are you going to post your 'experience' on other sites/forums? The site you were stalking me in for example 😄😄😄😄

Really pleased you've got it sorted, it's making me consider getting my other Dishy onto a French contract as I rarely use starlink in the UK, or just buy another Gen 2 and get that registered in France ....
 
makems said:
How long before mobile phones have aStarlink service built in?
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I raised a similar query last year, some "phones" now are already "unfoldable" and once they reduce the size of the "receiver" you never know.

but as for now....starlink have already sent up direct phone to satellite costellations, so mobile phones can be used in remote areas,.but atm the connection speed is very low.
 
Tombola said:
I rasied a similar query last year, some "phones" now are already "unfoldable" an donce they reduce the size of the "receiver" you never know.

but as for now....starlink have already sent up direct phone to satellite costellations, so mobile phones can be used in remote areas,.but atm the connection speed is very low.
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I think its only a matter of time. Musk has a couple of times put a post on X asking who would buy a Tesla phone.
 
makems said:
I think its only a matter of time. Musk has a couple of times put a post on X asking who would buy a Tesla phone.
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It's near gueanteed, it's a question of which brand releases it (ie SpaceX or Tesla) Elon doesn't want Apple owning his data in effect.

What I would wager is it won't run on Andriod or ios. Tesla has proven Elon can hire good engineers and do a full stack.
 
makems said:
I think its only a matter of time. Musk has a couple of times put a post on X asking who would buy a Tesla phone.
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and then promptly denied it on Joe Rogan :LOL:
which may have osmething to do with Verizon and google having a pop at his patents pending
 
MisterB said:
Harvey, are you going to post your 'experience' on other sites/forums? The site you were stalking me in for example 😄😄😄😄

Really pleased you've got it sorted, it's making me consider getting my other Dishy onto a French contract as I rarely use starlink in the UK, or just buy another Gen 2 and get that registered in France ....
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I’m not… no real interest in posting on BookFace….

Happy to share and help this community in any way I can… can’t be doing with a plethora of questions, smart ass comments etc on the other place! 😉

Also, I’m not that keen on publicing too much in case it’s not the loophole Starlink want us to follow and it gets closed down in some way… rather be a bit stealthy! 😜

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