Hi everyone,

I'm based in Portugal and I'm facing a mind-boggling routing issue with my Starlink connection that is making online gaming completely impossible.

I am experiencing a massive discrepancy between the DayZ Official Launcher and the actual in-game server browser:

1. On the DayZ Official Launcher, European official servers look perfect, showing a low ping of around 67ms.
2. However, the moment I launch the game and look at the exact same European server inside the in-game menu, the ping shoots up to 400ms+, and I get kicked instantly for high latency.
3. Out of curiosity, I checked the South American / Brazilian servers inside the game menu, and they show a stable 90ms.

This makes no physical sense since I am in Europe, but it clearly points to a "PoP Misrouting" or a major GeoIP alignment glitch. It seems the launcher does a basic ICMP ping that targets a local node, but actual game traffic gets dumped by the Starlink satellite into a South American Point of Presence (PoP), forcing my data to make a transatlantic round-trip just to talk to a server a few hundred miles away from me.

Things I've already tried:

- Stowed the dish and did a long power cycle (unplugged for 20+ minutes) to force a new IP lease.

- Flushed my DNS and tried using Cloudflare/Google DNS.

- Checked if a VPN is running (it isn't).

Has anyone in Europe (especially around Iberia/Portugal) experienced this recently? Is there any trick to force the system to assign me to a local European PoP (like Madrid or Paris) without waiting ages for a support ticket response?

Thanks in advance for any insights!

Tags: #Starlink #DayZ #RoutingIssue #HighPing #PoPMisrouting #GamingPing #StarlinkPortugal #GeoIP #NetworkGlitch

Had to move from the appartment above me to the one below. My dishy was placed on a roof window before, but now i couldn't access the roof freely without disturbing my neighbours and having 20m cables ruining the facade of our building. Luckily i had my own side balcony, allthough a bit obstructed by a roof corner, so i decided to try it out as the most painless installation option. With about 25% obstruction from the roof i don't really lose signal whatsoever, maybe 4-5 times early in the morning (4-6 a.m) for 3-4 seconds but thats it! Really impressed how far the technology has come compared to a few years ago when a single tree branch could cause 50% signal loss.😊

In 2022, Elon Musk reportedly ordered Starlink service shut down in parts of Ukraine during a military offensive. Now, in October 2026, restrictions on Ukraine's military satellite communications have reportedly come from the White House.

The latest incident involves Starshield, the military counterpart to Starlink, but the underlying problem is the same.

How can anyone trust a communications system when access can be restricted at the discretion of a billionaire or a politician?

Imagine depending on Starlink because you live in a remote area, at sea, or somewhere with no alternative means of communication. You buy the equipment, pay your subscription, and assume you have a reliable connection.

But what happens when someone decides, for political, commercial, or personal reasons, that you should no longer have access?

A communications service that can be switched off for reasons entirely beyond the customer's control is not something you can safely depend on.

So the question is simple: Are Starlink customers buying a reliable communications service, or merely renting access for as long as Elon Musk and the US government allow it?

Hello everyone,

I’m looking for advice from anyone using Starlink Roam Unlimited internationally, especially in Equatorial Guinea or another country recently marked as “Coming Soon.”

My situation:

- Plan: Starlink Roam Unlimited.

- Account country: Germany.

- Location of the dish: Equatorial Guinea.

- The hardware was transferred to a new account registered in Germany approximately two days ago.

- The connection is currently working normally.

- My Starlink account displays this warning:

“Your Starlink is outside its home country. Service will be restricted if it remains there too long. Days remaining: 6. Regulatory limit: 7.”

Equatorial Guinea was reportedly announced as a Starlink launch country on August 29, 2026, but my account still shows a regulatory restriction.

I contacted Starlink support. So far, support has not confirmed the exact date of restriction, whether the service will automatically stop when the countdown reaches zero, or whether the restriction can be lifted.

Questions for the community:

1. Has anyone seen this exact “Regulatory limit: 7” warning?

2. Has anyone used a German-registered Roam Unlimited account in Equatorial Guinea since the recent launch?

3. Did your service stop when the countdown reached zero, or did the warning disappear?

4. Does the recent country launch affect existing roaming restrictions, or does Starlink need to update the account or service eligibility first?

5. Has transferring a terminal to a new account changed the roaming countdown for anyone?

6. Has anyone received a definitive answer from Starlink support about this situation?

I’m not looking to bypass local regulations. I’m trying to understand whether this warning reflects an outdated availability status, an account-specific restriction, or a genuine limit on continued international roaming.

I can share a screenshot of the warning with personal and account details hidden.

Any firsthand experience or official clarification would be greatly appreciated. Thank you!

Checking info on Starlink.com for a friend it appears the local options are to rent a standard on any of the plans or purchase a Mini on any of the Roam plans. Is this the US norm where Standard is only offered as a rental and Mini is only offered as a purchase?

Built a custom mount using some strut and 1.25 emt.

Today I had the installation of my Starlink dish. Technically what the tech did was what I was thinking to do but more than anything I wanted to speak with a tech to hear his opinion of different scenarios. The dish currently is sitting on my rooftop, and a cable goes through the corner, into my window then into my router. More than speed is the stability, jitter between 3-5 with no delay in packets and a super smooth gaming experience. Starlink fixed my biggest issue which was this, and now I can prove that Optimum was the problem when it comes to jitter and packet delay fluctuation.

Now, I have sent an e-mail to my landlord, asking for permission to be able to install my Starlink fixed on top of the staircase roof which nobody seems to and doesn’t affect anything. My plan is to call Starlink and have an On-Tech relocate my Dish to the new place if approved. I do hope my landlord allows it as this is my only solution to reliable Internet and it works really well, especially streaming/gaming.

I even offered extra money on top of my rent to allow the Dish on the roof and anything else they will require.

I’m a boater and I remember the Roam plan being really good. I used to be able to watch/stream movies and TV no problem. Starting 30-60 days ago, it has been garbage. I have to keep turning on Ocean Mode to get a decent movie/TV watching experience. Am I alone here or is everyone seeing this?

Few notes:
I’m within 12 mi of the coast
Same thing happens when I’m stationary at the dock
I’m using all of Starlink’s equipment (Gen 3 dish and router)
Wifi to phone and laptop both experience same issues.

What are you kids doing in regards of the option of auto heating or continuous heating of the dish? It’s soon coming to that time of year to choose one here in the Canadas. What do you recommend? Just leave it heating 24-7 or on an as needed basis? TY.

Looking for a plan to use Starlink as a backup, if I set it to local priority is it £20 a month on low speeds but I can then add 50 GB for £12.50.

Or is it at least £20+£12.50 a month.

I started off with $109. It went to $120. Now its at $130? Nothing changed im so confused? Anybody else seen this happen? Im based in nor-cal

Hi there, i have a rural property using starlink (residential plan unlimited data) and i have a 24/7 4K camera on youtube of a city view that i like to have playing in the BG when i'm working. I have 1 neighbour using starlink about a kilometre away, nothing else around, so very little congestion i'd imagine. maybe 2 others using it within 5-6 KM of me. I'm wondering if i have this running 12 hours a day will i get data capped or throttled? AI says no but thought i'd ask some humans...thanks in advance!

Olá, pessoal!

Já comprei a Starlink residencial e gostaria de saber sobre a experiência de vocês com jogos online no PC gamer.

O ping (latência) é estável durante as partidas?

Acontecem muitas quedas ou oscilações de conexão?

Como fica a conexão em dias de chuva?

Vocês recomendam a Starlink para jogos competitivos e multiplayer?

Atualmente, minha latência fica em torno de 60 ms na internet que utilizo. Gostaria de saber se a Starlink oferece uma experiência melhor ou pelo menos estável para jogar.

Quem já usa a Starlink para jogar, poderia compartilhar sua experiência e dizer quais jogos costuma jogar?

Obrigado!

My Starlink in northern Michigan has been extremely glitchy these past few days, with Teams video and plain audio calls glitching constantly. It has only rarely done that before, but has been frequent and grouped just in these past few days.

Has anyone started a "show them what we think" demonstration? The owner is disappearing people (again) and as customers we have the ability to demonstrate our displeasure, but it needs to be coordinated.

I use the starlink router and I see where lots of people are saying that it's not good. So my question is this. Would it be better to run pass-through mode with a peplink BR1 pro 5g, Or keep the original. I play games like rust and my wife watches TV (streaming like Hulu, Netflix, etc.) The reason I already have one is we full time in an RV and were using the Hotspot capabilities of this unit before we switched to starlink. We had problems doing more than one thing at a time.

Bonjour à tous !

Je possède un Starlink Standard 4 et je souhaiterais ajouter un routeur Starlink Gen 3 (Routeur 3) à mon installation afin d’améliorer la couverture Wi-Fi dans ma maison.

Ma maison est à étage et mon idée serait de raccorder directement le routeur 3 au boîtier d’alimentation PoE de mon Starlink Standard 4 et de placer le routeur mini fournis avec le kit Starlink Standard 4 au rez de chaussée.

Est-ce que ce montage est réellement possible et compatible avec le Starlink Standard 4 ? Si oui, quel est le branchement à effectuer ?

Si quelqu’un a déjà réalisé ce montage ou possède des informations fiables à ce sujet, je suis preneur de vos conseils

Merci d’avance pour votre aide !

Mickael R

russian troll farms offline, anticipating murcan and other ones 🤗
So how reliable is starlink really?

Testing how fast will this post might be deleted 😅

Hab heute Star-Link gekündigt,will mit diesem Verbrecher nichts zu tun haben 😢

Starlink 目前发射了多少颗卫星在地球上空？

So, right now as it's being announced...when it comes to the issues with Starlink/Starshield in the UKR...Musk says it was a SecDef/POTUS call, WH says it was Musk.

Are we...fully 100% sure that the system didn't just...break? That the tech wasn't meeting spec as advertised? It got overwhelmed with too much input in a small space and glitched out, it's getting too overwhelmed with a new rollout of some kind etc etc?

Like...I'm not gonna get into the game theory of it, but...it doesn't make sense for Musk to shut it all down due to say, Yandex right? Same reason he didn't shut it down when craft were hitting various sat launch facilities in RU.

So...what if the system just broke? Can someone more familiar with the tech explain why that wouldn't be the case?

I've had my dish since 2022 with no issues. It's still operating perfectly fine. I'm just wondering for the future once I need a replacement. Is it an easy process? Thanks!

Moving into new house (single story) in western WI and debating between the pivot or wall mount.
Router would be going in the adjacent room on the north side of the house.
TIA

I'd appreciate being pointed in the direction of a Starlink cellular sub, if there is one, please.