[Starlink] Researchers Seeking Probe Volunteers in USA

[Livingood, Jason]

> Those of us here, like me and Dave Taht, who have measured the big elephants in the room (esp. for Starlink) like "lag under load" and "fairness with respect to competing traffic on the same <link>" probably were not consulted, if the goal is "little burden on your available bandwidth".



I don’t have specifics for their test config, but most of the platforms would determine ‘little burden’ by looking for cross traffic (aka user demand on the connection) and if it is non-existent/low then running tests that can highly utilize the link capacity – whether for a working latency test or whatever.



> Frankly, I expect the results will be treated like other "quality metrics" - J.D. Power comes to mind from consulting experience in the automotive industry - and be cherry-picked to distort the results.



I dunno – I think the research & measurement community seems to be coalescing around certain types of working latency / responsiveness measures as being pretty good & predictive of real end user application QoE.



> By all means participate if you want, but I suspect that the "raw data" will not be made available, and looking at the existing reports, it will be hard to extract meaningful comparisons relevant to real user experience at the test sites.



Not sure if the raw data will be available. Even if not, they may publish the parameters of the tests themselves.



JL
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