Hilbilly
Veteran Member
My neighbor that abuts my south property line received his dish within 2 weeks of ordering and he ordered 5 months after I did. I placed my order 7 months ago and still have not received confirmation of shipment. The difference being that I used my true service location and he used a service location for an address in the little town close to us. That town is 20 km away. Despite the service locations difference he still gets excellent service and loves it.Yes, a deposit, versus full payment for purchase, will have no expected delivery timeline until they are able to expand capacity.
The service is 'available' everywhere within the latitudes they currently cover, just with a limitation of only a certain number of customers per cell. A cell is their construct to map out the geography over the area they cover with hexagonal sections. Each cell is allowed some (apparently quite limited) number of customers. Someone else got in before you in your cell. Your deposit holds a place within your cell so when capacity rises you'll get a chance to have your order fulfilled.
They use these cells to limit connections to the sats as the sat is passing overhead within the cone of visibility of the dish on the ground. This is due to both the smaller number of sats in the sky and the limited number of receiving ground stations in place so far.
Rob
The neigbor that abuts my east property line relocated her parents dish to her house and it works but does tell her that the service locations is not correct and she may experience service issues. to date she has not experienced service issues and her parents house was at least 25 km from her location.
Obviously there is service to my area and I applied before my neighbors. Yet they have operating systems and I do not.
edit: sp and grammer.
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