[Starlink] musk on mean latency

[Luis A. Cornejo]

I don’t have my Starlink anymore, but I’ve just noticed that at least with
Speedtest screen shots, the bufferbloat seems to be much more under
control. E.g.

https://www.reddit.com/r/Starlink/s/THVeQ3r43D

Hopefully it’s not just an “optimization“ for the test. Maybe Nathan has
had a positive influence in that respect.

I still own the v2 hardware and would love to supports them instead of
Verizon, but if they had a more affordable 50/5 package for $50 which is
what Verizon charges for their 50/5 LTE service I would jump ship and run
some flent tests.

Anybody in this list able to confirm the better bufferbloat results?

-Luis

On Mon, Jan 15, 2024 at 9:22 AM Dave Taht via Starlink <
starlink at lists.bufferbloat.net> wrote:

> I would rather like starlink to get latency for
> voip/gaming/videoconferencing down to consistently (99.8%) below 40ms.
>
> from
> https://spaceflightnow.com/2024/01/13/live-coverage-spacex-to-launch-falcon-9-rocket-on-starlink-mission-from-cape-canaveral/
> …
> “The biggest, single goal for Starlink from a technical standpoint is
> to get the mean latency below 20 milliseconds,” Musk said.
>
> mean latency is a somewhat wrong goal. It misses the impact of slow
> start. I figure he is mostly describing the difficult layer 2 work it
> requires to accomplish that, everything from doing sat handoffs and
> rerouting stuff on the ground, to needing more ground stations, which
> is indeed a giant task.  I keep hoping that in particular they get
> away from the "recalculate connectivity and bandwidth every 15
> seconds", into something more responsive for normal traffic. DNS
> servers on the sats would help too! and does not fit into the concept
> of "mean latency" at all.
>
> ... and me, all I want to see is cake on the "glitchy", fq_codel on
> the wifi, and for them to find some way to leverage at least some of
> the techniques in LibreQos (like ebpf and cake) to somehow manage
> their downlinks better.
>
> It does look like they are now achieving sub 30ms latency to 1.1.1.1
> in some places for dns.
>
> https://home.sjh.at/starlinksmokeping/?target=DNS.CloudflareDNS1
>
>
> --
> 40 years of net history, a couple songs:
> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D9RGX6QFm5E
> Dave Täht CSO, LibreQos
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