I’d like to know what kind of data Starlink WiFi transmits to anyone who is monitoring your WiFi connection via a VPN.
More specifically, when I’m connected to Starlink, can the people monitoring the VPN data see my location/region data? What else can they see?
“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 ?
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
My starlink puts me in a city 500 miles away
You trying to get away with something?
your height, weight, SSN, blood type, number of covid shots
I got you bro…
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.
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.
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.
Nope! Just curious about how Starlink works
Make sure you turn off international roaming so you don’t get hit with extra charges on your phone bill.
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.
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.
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.
https://whatismyipaddress.com will show the geolocation of your IP address.
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.