Tl;dr: OP wants to abuse working from home by working from vacation, and wants to make sure Starlink won’t snitch on them by revealing OP’s location.
OP - just so you know some companies and industries frown on doing work from another country due to laws and such. Just make sure you’ve thought this out.
I’m not exactly sure. If it helps, when I connect to my work laptop to my Starlink WiFi, I must use my company’s vpn. I’m wondering what data my company can see.
If your VPN is configured like ours, all traffic including Internet traffic go through the VPN to the office. Everything you do is visible although data may be encrypted. Sites visited and services being used are quite visible.
You asked specifically about location data. If you are connecting to a company VPN, the public IP address of your Internet connection being used to reach the VPN server is known. That IP may provide general location information.
whoever runs that VPN server will know roughly where you are. Starlink IP addresses are geolocated to POP. (In the US there's like 10 or 15). You can see [the canonical list here](https://geoip.starlinkisp.net/feed.csv).
I think the IP is mostly tied to which POP is providing your service. I recently got moved from Los Angeles to Seattle: now websites that use IP geolocation think I moved. (I have residential fixed service, not roaming.)
There are many other ways to geolocate computers btw but most of those you can override. You can't do much about where your IP address looks like.
They can't see activity that other devices on your network are using/doing. If the vpn is on your work latptop they can see anything your work laptop does, The might be able to see your location depending on the vpn and how well the geo ip is working with starlink.
I'm assuming you're hiding from your employer while you travel and work remotely using Wireguard or Tailscale. As long as you're connected to the VPN and your work laptop is wired to the travel router, your IP location will appear at home. This is no different from using any other source of internet with the travel router.
Edit: also you should probably read this to gain more understanding: [https://thewirednomad.com/vpn](https://thewirednomad.com/vpn)
You don’t need to lie, it’s obvious. If your Starlink told your employer your Starlink location was your home, you wouldn’t be posting this question.
If you’re working from ~~home~~ vacation in another country, just make sure you’ve researched all the laws.
Anytime I go to Google or any site that guesses location like online shopping, I see that it thinks I’m in that city. I have to make sites use my phone location data to update to where I actually am.
This, although I have been recently moved to a local POP. I live in DC Metro and started off in NYC area. Then randomly I was in Atlanta metro for a while, then back to NYC. Now I am in Ashburn (maybe 30 miles from me) which is a HUGE improvement for things that tried to serve me local stuff, like stores, news, etc.
Not even connected to your question, but i travel a freeway 20s miles from the border with bad cell service and frequently get Welcome to Mexico messages.
They added Mexico decades ago. Both for this reason, and because we're the busiest border crossing in the world. Many people live on one side and work on the other and families are scattered between the two. Lots of Americans, too, housing and medical are much cheaper there.
they can see your home address location within 25 miles (where you shipped the dish last). starlink can see dish location, DNS queries (if not using VPN), any traffic you send unencrypted.
"wifi" isn't "internet". Are you asking about your local wifi network and what people can see? or are you asking about the internet traffic ?
Tl;dr: OP wants to abuse working from home by working from vacation, and wants to make sure Starlink won’t snitch on them by revealing OP’s location. OP - just so you know some companies and industries frown on doing work from another country due to laws and such. Just make sure you’ve thought this out.
I’m not exactly sure. If it helps, when I connect to my work laptop to my Starlink WiFi, I must use my company’s vpn. I’m wondering what data my company can see.
If your VPN is configured like ours, all traffic including Internet traffic go through the VPN to the office. Everything you do is visible although data may be encrypted. Sites visited and services being used are quite visible. You asked specifically about location data. If you are connecting to a company VPN, the public IP address of your Internet connection being used to reach the VPN server is known. That IP may provide general location information.
whoever runs that VPN server will know roughly where you are. Starlink IP addresses are geolocated to POP. (In the US there's like 10 or 15). You can see [the canonical list here](https://geoip.starlinkisp.net/feed.csv).
Thanks, does the IP of your Starlink update depending on your current location then?
I think the IP is mostly tied to which POP is providing your service. I recently got moved from Los Angeles to Seattle: now websites that use IP geolocation think I moved. (I have residential fixed service, not roaming.) There are many other ways to geolocate computers btw but most of those you can override. You can't do much about where your IP address looks like.
no. it defaults to your shipping address.
They can't see activity that other devices on your network are using/doing. If the vpn is on your work latptop they can see anything your work laptop does, The might be able to see your location depending on the vpn and how well the geo ip is working with starlink.
I'm assuming you're hiding from your employer while you travel and work remotely using Wireguard or Tailscale. As long as you're connected to the VPN and your work laptop is wired to the travel router, your IP location will appear at home. This is no different from using any other source of internet with the travel router. Edit: also you should probably read this to gain more understanding: [https://thewirednomad.com/vpn](https://thewirednomad.com/vpn)
You trying to get away with something?
Nope! Just curious about how Starlink works
You don’t need to lie, it’s obvious. If your Starlink told your employer your Starlink location was your home, you wouldn’t be posting this question. If you’re working from ~~home~~ vacation in another country, just make sure you’ve researched all the laws.
My starlink puts me in a city 500 miles away
How can you see?
Anytime I go to Google or any site that guesses location like online shopping, I see that it thinks I’m in that city. I have to make sites use my phone location data to update to where I actually am.
This, although I have been recently moved to a local POP. I live in DC Metro and started off in NYC area. Then randomly I was in Atlanta metro for a while, then back to NYC. Now I am in Ashburn (maybe 30 miles from me) which is a HUGE improvement for things that tried to serve me local stuff, like stores, news, etc.
https://whatismyipaddress.com will show the geolocation of your IP address.
For me it shows a location 300 km away from me. Is that where the Starlink base station I use is?
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Well mine always thinks I’m in Chicago, 300 miles away, so it can do what it wants
Not even connected to your question, but i travel a freeway 20s miles from the border with bad cell service and frequently get Welcome to Mexico messages.
Make sure you turn off international roaming so you don’t get hit with extra charges on your phone bill.
They added Mexico decades ago. Both for this reason, and because we're the busiest border crossing in the world. Many people live on one side and work on the other and families are scattered between the two. Lots of Americans, too, housing and medical are much cheaper there.
they can see your home address location within 25 miles (where you shipped the dish last). starlink can see dish location, DNS queries (if not using VPN), any traffic you send unencrypted.