[Starlink] I had forgotten how good this was

[Dave Taht]

On Mon, Jan 20, 2025 at 11:36 PM Mike Puchol via Starlink
<starlink at lists.bufferbloat.net> wrote:
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> Thank you Dave!
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> It has been a while since I wrote that piece, and so much has changed. I have been really busy with work, and haven’t been able to implement a lot of these changes into the starlink.sx tracker - I’m trying to put aside some time to update it.

Perhaps someone here could help you out?

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> The following I can think of:
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> v2mini satellites are not modeled, and are now a great portion of the constellation.
> Gateways now have Ka and E band capability, increasing backhaul capacity considerably (5 GHz available on E band).

I am under the impression that much of the rocky mountains - eastern
USA can only be served by E and Ka and not Ku?

> Several megasites have been constructed (32 gateway antennas per site).
> Additional Ku beams are available on v2mini satellites.
> ISL is a complete mesh now, with very few gaps.

I keep wondering what tokoyo to london latency is via ISL.

> DTC onboard newer v2mini satellites.
> Reduced operational altitude on some shells, enabling more frequency re-use, and 3-4 dB better link margin.
> New versions of the UT, with Mini being the equivalent of 802.11b Wi-Fi clients ruining the party for G/N clients by dragging down resources.

I thought this would really hurt the constellation initially, but if
you consider most of the time
a dish is idle, not so much.
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> Best,
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> Mike
> On Jan 14, 2025 at 14:24 -0800, Dave Taht via Starlink <starlink at lists.bufferbloat.net>, wrote:
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> https://mikepuchol.com/modeling-starlink-capacity-843b2387f501
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> It has a few challengeable assumptions now.
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