[Starlink] Optimized for Speedtest?

David Lang david at lang.hm
Tue Mar 15 19:38:25 EDT 2022


>> Is that something done in the satellites who shift capacity from other users 
>> to those users who initiate downloads? Is that done on the backhaul?
>
> Wish we knew. In my ideal world they would supply a statistic that a
> sch_cake could take and vary the rate/buffering based on that on the
> home router, or just do it more right
> in the dishy and head ends with cake + BQL.

I have noticed very different speeds at different times (I can't know for sure 
who is up an using it, but middle of the night speeds tend to be much better 
than late evening speeds so I'm guessing it correlates to usage)

David Lang


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