[Starlink] teardown of the starlink provided "router"

[Nathan Owens]

Here ya go: https://fcc.report/FCC-ID/2AWHPR201/4805890
There's at least one teardown video, but the FCC pics are better.

Qualcomm IPQ4018, can run OpenWrt 19.07.7, or the latest 21.02.1 RC branch.

--Nathan

On Tue, May 18, 2021 at 8:20 AM Dave Taht <dave.taht at gmail.com> wrote:

> I would really like someone to disassemble, and take photographs of
> the chipset and design of the starlink provided "router",
> which is proving to be such a disaster, and put those up somewhere.
> Youtube videos seem to be popular... we could do a
>  kvetchy one of those?
>
> I have really goofed in that my visit to the starlink site I'd assumed
> the dishy was all there was! At one level I'm deliriously happy
> that that router can be junked, and with a decent OS, ipv6 etc can be
> enabled, as well as many other interesting local
> networking services. At another level I'm grumpy as to have to throw
> out all the bufferbloat related testing to date.
>
> In my dream world, the dishy would do ethernet flow control at a
> "single transmit upstream buffer" granularity, below 4ms, and
> emit pause frames that an fq_codel upstream could deal with, but that
> still is not enough, accurate parsing of the dishy's actual link rates
> up and down would allow for controlling the sch_cake queues tighter.
>
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