[Starlink] Jamaican Starlink Outages and a hint of shared infrastructure

[J Pan]

can you give the reference to the complaint so we can dive into it a
bit? once the user packet reaches the satellite, it needs to get to
the ground (sooner than later according to starlink's current
practice), which may run into the same fiber to tunnel the packet from
the landing ground station to the user's home pop. once at the pop,
most starlink pop's now have at least two neighbor pop's, so
theoretically, starlink has the capability to route packets to a
different landing ground station through inter-sat links and another
pop, if it can arrange so properly
--
J Pan, UVic CSc, ECS566, 250-472-5796 (NO VM), Pan at UVic.CA, Web.UVic.CA/~pan

On Mon, Jun 24, 2024 at 3:40 AM Inemesit Affia via Starlink
<starlink at lists.bufferbloat.net> wrote:
>
> I don't live in Jamaica but I just saw a user complain his service goes out at the same time his local provider does.
>
> The provider is Flow Jamaica and they seem to get service via C&W Caribbean according to another poster.
>
> Service going out together likely means there's shared infrastructure. And buying Starlink as backup and having it fail hard without rerouting several times in a row is below expectations.
>
> There's another provider in Jamaica. Digicel that seems to have separate infrastructure but that might not be value for money to have alternative connectivity.
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