[Starlink] It’s the Latency, FCC

[Michael Richardson]

Dave Taht via Starlink <starlink at lists.bufferbloat.net> wrote:
    > We made a point, easily demonstrable, that a 10Mbit link with 1ms
    > latency (to the nearest CDN) will outperforma 10Gbit link with 50ms.

Agreed.

    > I have now been trying to break the common conflation that download
    > "speed" means anything at all for day to day, minute to minute, second
    > to second, use, once you crack 10mbit, now, for over 14 years. Am I
    > succeeding? I lost the 25/10 battle, and keep pointing at really
    > terrible latency under load and wifi weirdnesses for many existing
    > 100/20 services today.

Yes. The problem starts with the geeks, who in my town seem to readily go for
the 100Mb/s FTTH (GPON) link from the incompetent incumbent telco rather than
the 50/10 VDSL from a competent ISP.

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]   Michael Richardson, Sandelman Software Works        | network architect  [ 
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