[Starlink] Some comparison data from New Zealand

[Ulrich Speidel]

Just to make sure we're fairly comparing technologies rather than the 
bad shape regulation has left their delivery in North America in... Here 
are some speedtest.net measurements from today (Friday New Zealand 
time), using a selection of servers around the world (with an unashamed 
selection bias towards the Pacific):

1) Between 5 and 6 pm from my docked laptop at work (UoA), on GbE with 
fibre backhaul:

Location 	Server 	Down 	Up 	RTT 	
Auckland 	WorldNet 	831.45 	914.17 	1 	
Auckland 	Vodafone 	881.13 	930.93 	3 	
Sydney 	Optus 	904.4 	335.73 	29 	
Sydney 	Vodafone Hutchinson 	803.63 	683.94 	27 	
Hong Kong 	HKIX 	101.04 	73.39 	284 	
Hong Kong 	i3D.net 	86.42 	39.58 	174 	
Tokyo 	OPEN Project (via 20G SINET) 	26.31 	30.51 	256 	
Tokyo 	i3D.net 	326.54 	15.69 	140 	
Los Angeles 	i3D.net 	342.85 	149.84 	158 	
Los Angeles 	2degrees 	388.95 	187.5 	125 	
Rarotonga 	Vodafone Cook Islands 	75.1 	0.31 	280 	
Apia, Samoa
	Digicel Samoa 	736.72 	289.8 	76 	
Bairiki, Kiribati
	ATHKL 	20.41 	3.07 	333 	on satellite (SES/O3b MEO)
New York 	Atlantic Metro 	481.01 	120.29 	197 	
London 	UK Dedicated Servers 	114.37 	83.21 	272 	
Frankfurt 	Deutsche Telekom 	194.7 	77 	299 	

2) Between 8:30 and 9:30 pm from my residential home fibre connection 
(bog standard suburban Auckland install). I did a traceroute on a couple 
of them to show that the path isn't always obvious or anywhere near 
shortest. A lot of traffic that should really stay on the western side 
of the Pacific makes its way all the way to the US mainland:

Location 	Server 	Down 	Up 	RTT 	
Auckland 	WorldNet 	868.67 	476.85 	3 	
Auckland 	Vodafone 	894.84 	458.47 	2 	own ISP
Sydney 	Optus 	713.48 	109.84 	31 	
Sydney 	Vodafone Hutchinson 	528.21 	166.57 	33 	
Hong Kong 	HKIX 	119.29 	26.84 	266 	traceroute goes via Hurricane 
Electric in LAX
Hong Kong 	i3D.net 	120.66 	7.75 	265 	also via HE in LAX
Tokyo 	OPEN Project (via 20G SINET) 	130.87 	38.63 	235 	
Tokyo 	i3D.net 	61.02 	31.18 	241 	
Los Angeles 	i3D.net 	295.05 	65.19 	128 	
Los Angeles 	2degrees 	544.75 	59.69 	127 	
Rarotonga 	Vodafone Cook Islands 	43.99 	1.09 	248 	These guys are on 
the Manatua cable from Samoa to Tahiti. Going by the traceroute, the 
traffic goes from NZ to Hurricane Electric in LAX (either via Hawaiki or 
Southern Cross Cable)and from there down on the Hawaiki cable to 
American Samoa, from there to Western Samoa and onto the Manatua cable 
from there. Must have a chat to their CEO to find out what is going on 
there.
Apia, Samoa
	Digicel Samoa 	365.01 	7.45 	79 	I'm not sure what is going on there 
with their inbound connection. Tide out?
Bairiki, Kiribati
	ATHKL 	12.49 	2.04 	489 	on satellite (SES/O3b MEO)
New York 	Atlantic Metro 	412.56 	0 	230 	no upload for some odd reason
London 	UK Dedicated Servers 	45.39 	31.9 	262 	
Frankfurt 	Deutsche Telekom 	183.99 	23.36 	270 	

Rates in Mb/s, RTT in ms.

So working from home's just marginally worse in terms of Internet here 
in Auckland than being at uni. And they haven't even connected the 
Southern Cross Next cable yet. I pay about US$73 / month, which includes 
a static public IPv4 address and home phone.

As for the islands, the only satellite-connected place with a speedtest 
server I could find was Bairiki, which is part of Tarawa Atoll in 
Kiribati, where one of the ISPs uses SES/O3b MEO (the rest use GEO). It 
still has a whoppingly large RTT (probably around 130-140 ms pure MEO 
link, without queue sojourn times). I've also observed dozens of 
milliseconds of delay INSIDE Tarawa in the past, so quite whether 
there's a segment of old coconut telegraph in there that hasn't been 
upgraded yet, I don't know. People on GEO in this part of the world 
would be well advised not to host speedtest servers - it would eat 
through their data caps in no time and make them deeply unpopular with 
their fellow locals.


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Dr. Ulrich Speidel

School of Computer Science

Room 303S.594 (City Campus)
Ph: (+64-9)-373-7599 ext. 85282

The University of Auckland
ulrich at cs.auckland.ac.nz
http://www.cs.auckland.ac.nz/~ulrich/
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