[Starlink] thinking about the laser links again

[Dave Taht]

On Thu, Oct 28, 2021 at 6:51 PM David Lang <david at lang.hm> wrote:
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> As a stunt, I think they will be able to do it fairly soon, using the satellites

It would be a great stunt. Even with a few ground hops along the way,
they should still be able to establish a speed record.

> that they have launched for polar coverage, they just need to time it so that
> they have birds in the right place for a few seconds (and it may not be the
> lowest latency possible, but as a stunt, who knows how far they could go)
>
> As a practical thing, a year or two, they need to launch a lot of new birds, and
> we don't kno what is holding up the starlink launches the last several months.

Bufferbloat fixes I hope!!! :)

> David Lang
>
> On Thu, 28 Oct 2021, Dave Taht wrote:
>
> > Anyway, good discussion on this thread!!! but all of you failed to
> > answer my humdinger question - *when* will they be able to route a
> > packet from new york to tokyo over the laser links? That kind of event
> > would be a world network latency record - right up there in
> > significance with the first inter-imp comms oct 29 1969:



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Fixing Starlink's Latencies: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c9gLo6Xrwgw

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