I have a fully remote gig where my manager has basically made it clear that he doesn’t care where I work from, but due to contractual requirements, the servers can’t be access from users outside of the US. I recently switched to starlink after a fiasco with ATT. A friend works the same contract while sailing overseas wth starlink and I was advised of another person using a hughes net system for the same use, without an issue so I’m curious, if I take my existing system that is tied to a US address , will it show up as accessing the server from the US?
Check out tailscale.com
Setup a computer in your home in the us, setup tailscale on it, enable the “exit node” feature.
Tailscale creates a private vpn. When you sign on remotely via Starlink you can select your home computer as your exit node. Your traffic will securely route back home through that computer routing your traffic though your home computer and its internet connection.
In every Starlink supported country you’ll get an IP address with geolocation in that country.
You are accessing data from outside of the US, which in all likelihood could be causing your employer to be non-compliant with either their clients, the government, or both. If you get caught you could lose your job, be personally fined, or possibly face prison time, depending on what industry you work in. Ain’t worth it.
To answer your question, no. The ground station is whatever’s closest to you.
Set up a computer (or a virtual computer) at your home in the US, connect to it using something like AnyDesk/Teamviewer/whatever. There will be no way for them to determine that you’re not sitting at home, in the US on your computer.
Depends where the ground station is the satellites are connecting to. In Europe it will show you are in Europe.
This is how you get “hired” to clean the safe house shitters and bloodstained carpets. No need to extradite… you’ll be employed.
You should not mess around if there are contractual obligations. You will be the first under the bus if the contract owner figures it out, which is trivially easy to make a mistake and disclose. If it’s a defense contract everyone will be in hot water.
This may be exactly what I need. Thanks
Exactly this. Not worth putting your career and life in jeopardy.
well, I don’t personally. Nobody in our division does, but the rule remains…
To be more precise, the IP of the country where Starlink has a ground station closest to your location. Not all supported countries have local ground stations. For example, in Ukraine, geolocation often shows Poland
That’s not always the case.
I toured Italy using Roam and I never connected to the Milan ground station. Always either Berlin or Madrid.
To answer the question: no you will not reliably get a US IP. Depending on what your requirements are, get a VPN or remote desktop or other means to “show up” in the US
Pretty sure my employer is non-compliant for a host of other reasons I won’t get into, and I’d be moving to a non extradition country, while refinancing every thing I own in the US, and renting it out at a massive profit…so, worth it is a relative term.
What is this? It is trivial to determine vpn usage. This is also shitty advice in general.
Waiting for the next post from the OP about getting fired because they listened to some of the bad advice here. Hint: if your employer has this requirement it’s for a reason and vpns aren’t the magic solution to getting around it.
So if there isn’t one in the country, for instance Ecuador, is there a way to request a US based ground station?
I’m not sure on all the details, all I know is that I was specifically advised to not use a VPN as it was insufficient, or subject to immediately being redflagged… a previous employee was fired when he logged in from a Caribbean cruise to check his email while using one.
It’s not a defense contract, to be clearThe restrictions are only because of personal data on the server thats linked to the gov, that I don’t have access to anyways…and which the cell phone and credit card companies have already leaked a dozen times.
It’s a bit like worrying about COVID at this point.
I expect you’ll quickly find it’s a better solution than a traditional vpn. And if for some reason you really still want a traditional vpn, tailscall has mullvad for $5 /mo and shows up in app as additional exit nodes.
Asus routers can do this pretty easily too.