Here I am coming to you by satellite. As I suspected, on transplanting it to Wales it wasn't easy. Plugged in and switched on and nothing happened. Well, the aerial moved itself around so I could tell it was looking for a signal but there wasn't anything there to get the internet with. So I connected via the cellular network and Elon wouldn't let me log into the customer account bit of the Starlink website, even though I was using exactly the same password and username I'd set the account up with a couple of days ago. It either froze up or told me I had invalid credentials. But I think that was their problem rather than mine. Eventually it let me in and it occurred to me that maybe it would help if I changed the 'service address' in case it was confused that I was no longer in the East Midlands. Of course, addresses in remote parts of Wales are not in their database, but I managed to find one in a village about ten miles away that it recognized as a valid address and after a further hour and a couple of reboots I have a signal. Phew. Interestingly the speed isn't as fast as it was in Leicester. Only 150Mbps. Even though there can't be very many other users to create 'contention' on the network round here.
Fighter aircraft fly over the area regularly, so no doubt the computers on the planes will identify me as an enemy radar beacon and launch air-to-surface missiles.
The monthly cost of this is in the region of 70 pounds a month. Once again, a bit pricey but comparable to what a lot of people spend on mobile telephony. I've just had a pay rise at work which gives me almost exactly this much more take-home a month, so it's just like not having a pay rise this autumn. The mobile signal boosters I'd need to be in with a chance of strengthening the cellular signal are in the region of 1,000-2,000, plus more for aerials.
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