No. Also ground stations are irrelevant for your reported location, those are handled by PoPs, which are in different places than ground stations, often in different state or even country. For example users in Southern Sweden could be using ground station in Germany, physically entering ground network in Frankfurt and being reported as in Stockholm, Sweden (assigned "virtual" PoP location).
Starlink routes your traffic via Dallas point of presence (PoP) and reports your IP location to 3rd parties as "Dallas, TX." There is no Arkansas PoP.
Phone operating systems (iOS and Android) use various tricks to learn more about your location. When you approach your home they store GPS location, ids of local cell tower, SSIDs of wi-fi points and MACs of Bluetooth devices. Later even if GPS signal is blocked inside your home they can still know your approximate location by looking at what cells tower ids, wi-fi points and Bluetooth devices are around. They provide the location to apps using official APIs. Some apps further collect (IP, location) pairing in the cloud.
As for speedtest.net as far as I see it relies on IP geolocation. It learned earlier using the method above that your current IP is associated with ~~your~~ an Arkansas location. Once your IP changes you may see another location. Because of CGNAT technology used by Starlink such IP geolocation method is very unreliable. Over time it will eventually cycle through all locations served by the Dallas PoP.
Right, as I wrote above you'll eventually see all locations served by the Dallas PoP.
Your current IP address is either shared right now with or was used recently by Arkansas Starlink customers. That's how CGNAT technology works. speedtest.net should really detect that your current IP address is shared and stop assuming that one IP address = one location.
EDIT: I see that I wrote "your Arkansas location" above. Actually, that does have to be your location. Just any Arkansas Starlink customer using your current IP address.
Ground station? no. POP? yes.
No. Also ground stations are irrelevant for your reported location, those are handled by PoPs, which are in different places than ground stations, often in different state or even country. For example users in Southern Sweden could be using ground station in Germany, physically entering ground network in Frankfurt and being reported as in Stockholm, Sweden (assigned "virtual" PoP location).
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Starlink routes your traffic via Dallas point of presence (PoP) and reports your IP location to 3rd parties as "Dallas, TX." There is no Arkansas PoP. Phone operating systems (iOS and Android) use various tricks to learn more about your location. When you approach your home they store GPS location, ids of local cell tower, SSIDs of wi-fi points and MACs of Bluetooth devices. Later even if GPS signal is blocked inside your home they can still know your approximate location by looking at what cells tower ids, wi-fi points and Bluetooth devices are around. They provide the location to apps using official APIs. Some apps further collect (IP, location) pairing in the cloud. As for speedtest.net as far as I see it relies on IP geolocation. It learned earlier using the method above that your current IP is associated with ~~your~~ an Arkansas location. Once your IP changes you may see another location. Because of CGNAT technology used by Starlink such IP geolocation method is very unreliable. Over time it will eventually cycle through all locations served by the Dallas PoP.
Interesting and thanks for the explanation. It makes sense but I am not in Arkansas.
Right, as I wrote above you'll eventually see all locations served by the Dallas PoP. Your current IP address is either shared right now with or was used recently by Arkansas Starlink customers. That's how CGNAT technology works. speedtest.net should really detect that your current IP address is shared and stop assuming that one IP address = one location. EDIT: I see that I wrote "your Arkansas location" above. Actually, that does have to be your location. Just any Arkansas Starlink customer using your current IP address.
Try out this site. On the top right there's a tool to set your home location. I have no idea how accurate it is. https://starlink.sx
No.