It's always a surprise how one problem can cascade into another. Our SL was down last night, like the others, but aftermath continues.
I would highly, highly, recommend that anyone using the internet reconfigure their routers to use either Google (8.8.8.8, or 8.8.4.4.) or Cloudflare (1.1.1.1) as both go to extreme efforts to protect their DNS databases and their service reliability.
It's always a surprise how one problem can cascade into another. Our SL was down last night, like the others, but aftermath continues.
Our main TV doesn't work this morning. We stream live TV using Hulu. It reports: "you are not at your home location!" Due to licensing rules, they only allow streaming if you are at home, not at other locations. Our TV worked yesterday, but not today, in the same location. Aahhhh.
Hulu's implementation is already a bit weird since their IP check always returns "Los Angeles" as our location. That is *usually* the ground station that SL uses for us. When we first got SL, I had to phone Hulu support repeatedly to get service re-activated and convince them we were still at home. Each of those calls takes upwards of an hour. The Hulu support team usually tries to validate our location using my cell phone. I don't know if this works or not since we have no cell service (here in CA) and the phone uses wifi calling-- through Starlink. So, back to the ground station.
Another oddity with Hulu is that their license restrictions only apply to your "living room TV." This actually provides a nice workaround. So, for now, I am instead streaming live TV on my tablet so my wife can watch it while I get out working today. No restrictions watching on a tablet or a phone. I'll have to deal with the Hulu issues later today or tonight. If I could figure out how to screencast from the tablet to the TV ... hmmm.
Interesting.
My Starlink IP check results in New York City for my location so sites that I frequent that I have log in profiles seem to enjoy trying to force me to NYC location stores or branches and it totally PO's me to have to go and change the shopping/browsing location every time and then some of them seem to what to argue with me about the location. Or TV had a few hiccups this morning also.It's always a surprise how one problem can cascade into another. Our SL was down last night, like the others, but aftermath continues.
Our main TV doesn't work this morning. We stream live TV using Hulu. It reports: "you are not at your home location!" Due to licensing rules, they only allow streaming if you are at home, not at other locations. Our TV worked yesterday, but not today, in the same location. Aahhhh.
Hulu's implementation is already a bit weird since their IP check always returns "Los Angeles" as our location. That is *usually* the ground station that SL uses for us. When we first got SL, I had to phone Hulu support repeatedly to get service re-activated and convince them we were still at home. Each of those calls takes upwards of an hour. The Hulu support team usually tries to validate our location using my cell phone. I don't know if this works or not since we have no cell service (here in CA) and the phone uses wifi calling-- through Starlink. So, back to the ground station.
Another oddity with Hulu is that their license restrictions only apply to your "living room TV." This actually provides a nice workaround. So, for now, I am instead streaming live TV on my tablet so my wife can watch it while I get out working today. No restrictions watching on a tablet or a phone. I'll have to deal with the Hulu issues later today or tonight. If I could figure out how to screencast from the tablet to the TV ... hmmm.
Same issue here with Dallas. Have to change it every time. But still like having reliable internet service over what we had before. The down times are significantly less than the old system.
Mines in NY also. I go to HD and it’s suggesting a store in Queens.
