[Bloat] [Starlink] Annoyed at 5/1 Mbps...

[Sebastian Moeller]

Hi Dan,


> On Mar 21, 2023, at 18:22, dan <dandenson at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> GPON is TDMA so the latency is going to be at a minimum the RTT * connected ONUs, vs DSL which is a fixed ratio/scheduler.  

	Assuming no proactive grants... are these a thing in PON or only in DOCSIS?, but since GPON frames can be shared between ONUs how do you derive the "RTT * connected ONUs" formula?


> Standard GPON deployments are typically well over 1 second to the OLT.

	I read that as millisecond, which would mean 8 GPON frames... for sending the request, processing and arbitrating all requests, assign transmit slots and send the transmit maps back to the ONUs, which then actually need to send the packets... RTT should not be all that noticeable, at 20 Km the wave propagation of light in fiber would be around 2*(20000/300000000 * 3/2)*1000 = 0.2 milliseconds... (not sure what a realistic maximum length for a PON tree is, which probably depends on a number of things anyway, but google says up to 20 Km for GPON)... but that RTT would be the same for active ethernet...

>  Not that it's bad or anything, but in comparison GPON has very 'wireless' like best case latency but without the wireless variances.

	All centrally scheduled link layers will have similar challenges I guess?

Kind Regards
	Sebastian

> 
> On Tue, Mar 21, 2023 at 6:31 AM Sebastian Moeller <moeller0 at gmx.de> wrote:
> I have to push back gently on this...
> 
> XG(S)-PON is gross 10Gbps (after FEC you are left with around 8,6 Gbps), Noki's proprietary (aka not ITU) @% Gbps PON seems to be abbreviated 25GS-PON.
> 
> Now XGS-PON allows maximally 128 end-nodes in the tree, so:
> 8600/128 = 67.18 Mbps/subscriber
> 
> unless the ISPs royally screwed up the configuration there should be a CIR per subscriber of around 60 Mbps. So setting your cake shaper to 50 Mbps shpuld give you:
> a) 10 times the throughput of the 5/1 Mbps DSL (ignoring overhead compensation for a change, which likely will be in favor of PON)
> b) decent low latency, round robin delay for full MTU packets between 128 active nodes would be: 
>         packet/sec: ((8.6 * 1000^3)/(1500*8)) = 716666.666667
>         millisec/packet: 1000 / ((8.6 * 1000^3)/(1500*8)) = 0.00139534883721
>         round-robin delay 128: 128 * 1000 / ((8.6 * 1000^3)/(1500*8)) = 0.178604651163 milliseconds...
> 
>         DSL uses a 4KHz clock so 1000/4000 = 0.25 millisecond quantization
> So XGS-PON has at least theoretical potential to deliver lower latency than DSL, but the details depend on if/how packets are aggregated. HOWEVER the 125µsec GPON frames can be shared between different ONUs in upstream and downstream direction... so these are not a hard quantisation but more the interval between control information required for the access grant cycle...
> 
> c) robustness against RF noise sources and electricity/lightning
> 
> So I am not su sure I would prefer the 5/1 (A)DSL over a PON... 
> 
> That however is orthogonal to me preferring a competent ISP that takes care of keeping latency under load at bay.
> 
> 
> 
> > On Mar 21, 2023, at 12:26, Rich Brown via Starlink <starlink at lists.bufferbloat.net> wrote:
> > 
> > 
> > 
> >> On Mar 21, 2023, at 1:21 AM, Frantisek Borsik via Rpm <rpm at lists.bufferbloat.net> wrote:
> >> 
> >> Now, I hope to really piss You off with the following statement  :-P but:
> >> 
> >> even sub 5/1 Mbps “broadband” in Africa with bufferbloat fixed on as many hops along the internet journey from a data center to the customers mobile device (or with just LibreQoS middle box in the ISP’s network) is feeling way better than 25Gbps XG-PON. The only time the XG-PON guy could really feel like a king of the world would be during his speedtest.
> > 
> > Nope. Sorry - this doesn't piss me off :-) It's just true. 
> > 
> > - 7mbps/768kbps DSL with an IQrouter works fine for two simultaneous Zoom conferences. (Even though no one would think that it's fast.)
> > - I recommend people on a budget drop their ISP speed so they can afford a router that does SQM https://forum.openwrt.org/t/so-you-have-500mbps-1gbps-fiber-and-need-a-router-read-this-first/90305/40
> 
>         Even simpler, even on a 100Gbps link nobody stops you from setting your shaper to 50/10 if that is all your router can deliver (and I agree if there are cheaper plans closer to the 50/10 it makes economic sense to scale down the plan)...
> 
> 
> > 
> > The people that get annoyed are those who just upgraded to 1Gbps service and still are getting fragged in their games.
> > 
> > Rich
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