[Starlink] musk: 28ms median latency on starlink

[Livingood, Jason]

First question is what was the test destination? From the CPE to a ground station or to something at a peering point or on the internet? I would assume either to ground station or 1 hop beyond (peering point)… That way we can do apples-to-apples comparisons, so to speak.

In any case, there is a lot of good 3rd party data out there for this. First is RIPE Atlas. I helped get a lot of probes deployed in the US and there are now 78 probes connected globally (roughly 30 would be sufficient to call it statistically significant): https://atlas.ripe.net/probes/public?sort=-id&toggle=all&page_size=100&search=AS14593&page=1&status=1. So if you know how to pull data from Atlas, it is there for you to analyze… (see https://atlas.ripe.net/docs/apis/rest-api-manual/ and https://atlas.ripe.net/docs/tools-and-code/latencymon.html

There is also this recent report that used a hardware probe connected over ethernet: https://www.netforecast.com/wp-content/uploads/FixedWireless_LEO_CableComparisonReport_NFR5148-1.pdf

Another approach similar to accessing RIPE Atlas data would be to get the Cloudflare AIM data from M-Lab – see https://www.measurementlab.net/blog/cloudflare-aimscoredata-announcement/. There was also a recent 3rd party report on that (see Figure 1): https://www.netforecast.com/wp-content/uploads/NFR5150_NetForecast-ISP-Performance-Report-2024.pdf.

Jason


From: Starlink <starlink-bounces at lists.bufferbloat.net> on behalf of Dave Taht via Starlink <starlink at lists.bufferbloat.net>
Reply-To: Dave Taht <dave.taht at gmail.com>
Date: Sunday, June 2, 2024 at 13:13
To: Dave Taht via Starlink <starlink at lists.bufferbloat.net>
Subject: [Starlink] musk: 28ms median latency on starlink

Via elon musk:

Starlink just achieved a new internal median latency record of 28ms yesterday! Great work by the engineering and operations teams.

- https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1797282250574184587<https://urldefense.com/v3/__https:/twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1797282250574184587__;!!CQl3mcHX2A!Fo8uFKdmFfKjawQrmiHSiyPIfMeLkSmEDbZ7r3K6SUa6razTwsaV2N4vFYYuMFizfHJf-oPpQLsMuW6fdCXIyWT4k75JoVsfRQ$>

I of course, am very interested in y'all´s external measurements of how well starlink is doing. For me, it is fantastic - 30Mbit uploads nowadays, 0
latency on the upload (how?) https://www.waveform.com/tools/bufferbloat?test-id=2a1d139b-87cb-4ba4-a829-e2167801cffe<https://urldefense.com/v3/__https:/www.waveform.com/tools/bufferbloat?test-id=2a1d139b-87cb-4ba4-a829-e2167801cffe__;!!CQl3mcHX2A!Fo8uFKdmFfKjawQrmiHSiyPIfMeLkSmEDbZ7r3K6SUa6razTwsaV2N4vFYYuMFizfHJf-oPpQLsMuW6fdCXIyWT4k75XAxHvIw$>

I also keep hoping that the rest of the ISP industry is now paying attention and deploying stuff like fq_codel and cake and libreqos, but, ah well - I will settle for starlink blowing past a lot of dsl and cable and finding ways to get their density up.

Anyone going to the Starship launch on the 6th?



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