Adam Dodds

🇧🇯 Benin @Starlink ✖️ No service The Chinese are really helping to fix up the place, could be a factor. Cleaner streets in Cotonou than Paris.

🇹🇬 Togo @Starlink ✔️ Lome: 46 Mbps The first thing I saw after crossing the border was a naked dude defecating on the beach in a heap of burning garbage. Didn’t stay in the country long.

@twatterbaas @Starlink Starlink doesn't work in South Africa. When I fired up my Global Roam Mini it started a software update and then shut down, never to work again in SA.

@WillarShoko @Starlink Accra had great cell service and good WiFi everywhere I went it seemed. Starlink really shines when you are out in the countryside and get blazing fast internet in a random village 🙌

@doddsie @Starlink 26ms is very impressive, the Accra ground station has significantly improved latency from 120ms+

🇬🇭 Ghana @Starlink ✔️ Cape Coast: 141 Mbps ✔️ Accra: 156 Mbps ✔️ Volta Delta: 86 Mbps Officially available and works everywhere. Progress

@WillarShoko @Starlink This is what I had with coconut trees obstructing a full sky

@doddsie @Starlink Thanks for sharing, nice photos, how are the latencies

🇨🇮 Ivory Coast @Starlink ✖️ No service It worked at the Liberian border but never again. Geoblocked in Côte d’Ivoire.

🇱🇷 Liberia @Starlink ✔️ Monrovia: 79 Mbps ✔️ Nimba Mountain: 43 Mbps Was faster than hotel WiFi and I could take it with a battery to have internet where the WiFi didn’t reach.

@itapanv @Starlink It was much better than the hotel WiFi and I was able to plug it into my battery when the power grid went out various times and still have internet. I was using a mini purchased in the UK.

@doddsie @Starlink How was your experience with Starlink. I'm planning to install one. Did you got it here in Sierra Leone

🇸🇱 Sierra Leone @Starlink ✔️ Freetown: 178 Mbps The police at the border did not like my Japanese/British RHD vehicle. Apparently banned in the country. After some discussion, we agreed a ‘fine’ and I promised to only drive through the country, so I didn’t stay long.

@sadsadpanini You can form a company in a few minutes, incredible

@doddsie It's actually unbelievably good. Filed my returns in a breeze.

@bloman19 @Starlink Sorry dude, I’m in the Congo now

@doddsie @Starlink Hello i am in Guinea, Can I test the starlink internet please 🥺 it will be a pleasure

🇬🇳 Guinea @Starlink ✖️ No service Geoblocked at the border was a huge bummer, especially later in the night with no cell service. Woke up in my tent the following morning to chants of “Prooooo Government”. Many stories about Guinea, not on my recommendation list for prospective travellers.

@mhudack @NaturalEngland The strictness that Brits can stick to certain petty rules but then completely ignore other very serious violations is mystifying to me.

@doddsie @NaturalEngland After a couple of months of back and forth, multiple lawyers, my local MP and some additional intervention from higher political office, we found a face-saving loophole which led Natural England to put the magic words in writing: "you do not need a license to fill the hole."

When badgers tunneled under my house @NaturalEngland told us it would be illegal to close the tunnel without a license, and they wouldn't grant us a license for six months. When I told them that a structural engineer had said the house might collapse if the tunnel wasn't filled they said "If the house is unsafe you should move out," and insisted they couldn't grant an emergency license to close the hole and that filling the hole without a license would be a crime punishable by prison time and an unlimited fine.

🇬🇼 Guinea-Bissau @Starlink ✔️ Cacheu: 71 Mbps ✔️ Outside Bissau: 136 Mbps ✔️ Buba: 173 Mbps ✔️ Guinea border road: 86 Mbps Worked like a charm in the most remote areas of Guinea-Bissau, where there was zero cell service.

@BMagnsson I had a t-bone in Ghana today and it didn’t look like that. Thinking about creamed spinach now haha

Steak and wine at Hawksmoor on a Monday! Most lovely

🇬🇲 The Gambia @Starlink ✖️No service 32 Mbps for a few minutes, then no service That’s the pattern for Starlink geoblock, managed to get my Hotels.com booking in though haha

🇸🇳 Senegal @Starlink ✔️ Borderlands: 146 Mbps ✔️ Saint Louis: 158 Mbps ✔️ Dakar: 61 Mbps Not on the official Starlink map, but the mini on roam definitely works in Senegal

🇲🇷 Mauritania @Starlink ✔️Nouadhibou 96 Mbps ✖️Middle of nowhere dry lakebed: No service ✖️Nouakchott: No service ✖️Diawling NP: No service Starlink didn’t really work in Mauritania for me. I think the only way I got service in Nouadhibou was because I tried on a new coastal road that Google maps thought was in the sea, ie coastal service seems to work if Starlink thinks you are a boat, but that’s just speculation. I wanted to try Starlink in no man’s land between the Morocco/Western Sahara/Mauritania border, but it was too sketchy to bring out. Took over 6 hrs to cross. Tip if you go: Mauritania is technically a ‘dry’ country but you can get beer once you cross the border if you go to the Chinese restaurant by the port. Also very good food.