[Starlink] Testing airBaltic free Starlink in-flight WIFI for mining remote operations

[J Pan]

Thanks Sauli and all others: next time, when you are on a flight with
starlink (or any inflight wifi---all can be measured without paying
them ;-), please consider to run some tests as well

+ "curl ifconfig.io" in linux or go to http://whatsmyip.org to find
out your external ip address. "nslookup ..." that external ip address
to find out your pop (see http://tinyurl.com/starlinkmap)

if you have any online activities while on the plane, you can also
find out your external ip address later by taking a look at the log of
these online activities on your server/provider side

+ "traceroute 1.1.1.1"  (or tracert on windows) to find out your path
to cloudflare public dns, and the satellite gateway's ip address
(e.g., 100.64.0.1 for starlink without a public address)

you may not be able to reach ifconfig.io or 1.1.1.1 without paying
them on a non-free inflight wifi, but you shall be able to reach their
payment website to do something equivalent too

+ "ping -D -i 0.01 -c 10000 ..." that satellite gateway to profile the
satellite link a bit. please save the output of these commands and
share with me afterward. thanks a lot for your help

+ if you can reach starlink's dish (192.168.100.1), try
http://github.com/clarkzjw/LEOViz to see which satellite that your
dish is talking to. see more details at http://oac.uvic.ca/starlink

+ if you are interested in the seat (spacex's starlink, eutelsat's
oneweb, amazon's project kuiper and telesat's lightspeed), see
http://oac.uvic.ca/leonet and http://tinyurl.com/starlinkuser
--
J Pan, UVic CSc, ECS566, 250-472-5796 (NO VM), Pan at UVic.CA, Web.UVic.CA/~pan

On Sat, Jun 7, 2025 at 5:26 AM Sauli Kiviranta via Starlink
<starlink at lists.bufferbloat.net> wrote:
>
> Deal all,
>
> The sad thing was that I was completely unprepared! I just sit on my seat, and after the normal safety instructions I suddenly see familiar logo on the screen and announcement. I first thought it must be some premium service or rather just announcement on something they plan to do in the future. Once it sink in and I connected on my phone and ran some speed tests to see what was available, I realized that I gotta seize the opportunity and grab my laptop to try figure out some tests.
>
> David: "Showing a real-world demonstration of how well it worked is a really cool thing to do."
> - Good to hear! I was quite surprised how well it worked! Obviously its quite ideal in terms of visibility, but everything else, the handovers, speed of moving compared to the 16 km/h recommended for the roaming dishy and another 150 users on the same network! Was very cool experience.
>
> Oleg: "Have you tried to run StarDebug or at least official Starlink app on your phone? I wonder is it possible to access the hardware and get some debug data :)"
> - No, did not think of doing this! Next time I will be prepared! I think we will just send one of the guys for a cup of coffee in Vienna to collect data since the interest is there!
>
> JPan: "need more data though" + "do you happen to have any info about your public ip address while on the plane, so we can figure out its pop and pop handover behaviors along the way?"
> - I only ran some ping sweeps, as I was really focused on the target server that I ran the remote control tests through, for user-experience and what it looks like at application layer. Will add this to my script so I always get it. With 1000 samples, ping sweep 1, min/avg/max = 36.705/50.375/112.491 ms. Sweep 2, min/avg/max = 35.804/51.484/123.599 ms. Sweep 3, min/avg/max = 35.844/49.873/111.873 ms. Across all samples P99=73.86389, P50=48.9325, P1=37.88168. Quite impressive!
>
> Spencer: "very interested in that exact detail if you happened to collect it."
> - Will make sure to have it next time!
>
> Nitinder: "If you are embarking on future adventures with Starlink, please install this in your browser and trigger a few tests"
> - Noted! Will certainly do this next time!
>
> *****
> Question: Anything else of interest if we send one of our engineers to collect more data? Please let me know and I will try to organize it!
> *****
>
> Best regards,
> Sauli
>
> On Fri, Jun 6, 2025 at 8:47 PM David Collier-Brown via Starlink <starlink at lists.bufferbloat.net> wrote:
>>
>> Just a word of praise for Sauli:
>>
>> Showing a real-world demonstration of how well it worked is a really
>> cool thing to do. It proved just how well it can work.  It also
>> motivated us to ask a lot of questions (:-))
>>
>> --dave
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