[Starlink] teardown of the starlink provided "router"

[Nathan Owens]

Here are the chips in the dish:
https://twitter.com/VirtuallyNathan/status/1331709138276024320
There's a bunch of the black ones, some sort of RF chip, and one of the
heat-spreader capped ones. Parts seem to be custom, nothing I could find
online.

The Dish acts as the modem, so any router can be used. How were you
testing? With their router? Without?



On Tue, May 18, 2021 at 8:23 AM Nathan Owens <nathan at nathan.io> wrote:

> 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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