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@ TheOneWithAReallyLongName
2025-02-25 08:33:57
You don't just have to accept signals. You have to send signals and have the network accept them. Since Starlink wants to get paid, if they have the most basic level of competency, they'll have their network set up to require authentication, so they'd just refuse to carry your traffic.
Plus, they don't just broadcast the whole internet all at once, so even if you could just passively receive signals in your area, you'd have no way to make requests, so you couldn't direct it to send you what you actually want.
Ultimately, the issue isn't the endpoint Starlink kit. It's the entire rest of the network it depends on. The rest of the network won't play nice until you pay up, so even if you have 100% full control of the kit, you can't make the satellites serve you as an accepted network participant.