[Starlink] ookla's latest speedtest app does latency under load

[Livingood, Jason]

Hi Brennen – on #3, do you mean that (if we look for example at https://www.speedtest.net/result/i/5112435305) that 419ms is the mean/average? And when we see a result page like https://www.speedtest.net/result/i/5112435305 how do we expand/see detailed results that have low & high*? And is high max or p99/p98/p95?

And will this be added to the MacOS client soon?

Thanks for Ookla doing this BTW!

Jason

* If that is not possible in the current version, please suggest it as a feature request for your team’s next code sprint.

From: Starlink <starlink-bounces at lists.bufferbloat.net> on behalf of Brennen Smith <brennen at ookla.com>
Date: Thursday, May 12, 2022 at 19:49
To: Dave Taht <dave.taht at gmail.com>
Cc: "starlink at lists.bufferbloat.net" <starlink at lists.bufferbloat.net>
Subject: Re: [Starlink] ookla's latest speedtest app does latency under load

Hey all,

Here's some details about the final figures:

1. Loaded latency is simply an extension of the latency stage - same methodology and medium
2. We use a "warmed up" TCP connection for latency
3. We use the interquartile mean for the "displayed value"

Awesome seeing those numbers in the wild and looking forward to bringing more awareness to this issue.

Cheers,


Brennen Smith VP Technology

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On Thu, May 12, 2022 at 4:18 PM Dave Taht <dave.taht at gmail.com<mailto:dave.taht at gmail.com>> wrote:
Yea. peak 2500ms latency on download, 600ms on upload, that's about right. :/ The upload figure appears to be a bit lower (better) than what I measured 1 year ago, here (for the 30 or so new subscribers on this list, this was why I started it): https://docs.google.com/document/d/1puRjUVxJ6cCv-rgQ_zn-jWZU9ae0jZbFATLf4PQKblM/edit<https://urldefense.com/v3/__https:/docs.google.com/document/d/1puRjUVxJ6cCv-rgQ_zn-jWZU9ae0jZbFATLf4PQKblM/edit__;!!CQl3mcHX2A!FTiAGqK3qwfRgfDXIJcteOnbZN5LvTGXxBYrrr6_XAiTffCA3CQ65eFFlXap323hKFhA0NntTASs-xvx8fTimg$>

I don't know if ookla are throwing out arp related stuff, or using the 99th percentile to calculate the final figure. I hope to learn more about their calculations in the coming weeks.

I do keep hoping we can get more updated flent data over longer intervals than 20s. With starlink changing their allocation scheme every 15s, what number do you pick?

And like I said, some packet caps of this app would be good, too.



On Thu, May 12, 2022 at 4:07 PM Nathan Owens <nathan at nathan.io<mailto:nathan at nathan.io>> wrote:
Here's a test I did today: https://www.speedtest.net/my-result/i/5112435305<https://urldefense.com/v3/__https:/www.speedtest.net/my-result/i/5112435305__;!!CQl3mcHX2A!FTiAGqK3qwfRgfDXIJcteOnbZN5LvTGXxBYrrr6_XAiTffCA3CQ65eFFlXap323hKFhA0NntTASs-xsaVBosvg$>

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On Thu, May 12, 2022 at 4:04 PM Dave Taht <dave.taht at gmail.com<mailto:dave.taht at gmail.com>> wrote:
Ookla has just put out an ios and android app that also continuously
measures latency under load.

I'm interested in calibrating the results of that vs a vs flent
benchmarks verses starlink. Can someone here give this a shot? More
details here:


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IDEALLY, this would be over wifi -> starlink , with a packet capture
in the middle. But I'd settle for a few test results from starlink
folk of this new app, first.

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