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		gruez on Dec 3, 2022 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Starlink speeds in US dropped from 105Mbps to 53Mb... >This allows local devices to use the Starlink lat/long that dishy uses for satellite targeting. How does this solve the geolocation issue? The parent poster mentioned IP based geolocation, which isn't affected by the starlink terminal providing some sort of local debug api to get the current lon/lat.

terramauthe on Dec 3, 2022 [–]

I turned it on, and now geolocation works. That's how it's related.

iso1631 on Dec 3, 2022 | [–]

So when you go to https://ipinfo.io/ it reports your lat/lon to be correct under the "loc" entry?

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