[Starlink] reverse engineering the starlink router

[Dave Täht]

David: Have you been getting anywhere?

https://forum.openwrt.org/t/cake-w-adaptive-bandwidth/108848/2320

is about as ready for starlink testing as we can get it.

On Mon, Jan 10, 2022 at 09:27:16PM -0800, David Lang wrote:
> The new square dish no longer uses a rj-45 cable between the dish and the
> router, they have some new connector (looks limilar to USB-C, but flared on
> one side like micro-USB)
> 
> has anyone seen a teardown of the new dish/router yet? (I'm not willing to
> sacrafice my dish, but I may be willing to open the router for what little
> good it will do, but will probably wait until after I get the ethernet
> adapter first.
> 
> David Lang
> 
> On Mon, 10 Jan 2022, Dave Taht wrote:
> 
> >Date: Mon, 10 Jan 2022 20:32:34 -0800
> >From: Dave Taht <dave.taht at gmail.com>
> >To: starlink at lists.bufferbloat.net
> >Subject: [Starlink] reverse engineering the starlink router
> >
> >Really good teardown and analysis here:
> >
> >https://olegkutkov.me/2021/12/25/analysis-and-reverse-engineering-of-the-original-starlink-router/
> >
> >According to his twitter feed, he's now deep into the dishy:
> >https://twitter.com/olegkutkov
> >
> >I really hope the original starlink router gets updated to a modern
> >openwrt. The offloads they presently use in that product are just not
> >needed at the speeds the dishy runs at and there are so many
> >advantages to that modern codebase.
> >
> >I did get a shot at the newer dishy and wifi router over the holiday
> >myself, (without, sigh, an ethernet port) but my primary interest is
> >merely in finding a way to effectively run fq-codel derived algos on
> >or near it and not have to tear it apart.
> >
> >
> >-- 
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> >
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