<div dir="auto">Great description Mike. Elon acknowledged this 12+ months ago. 'Need more ground stations and less foolish routing'<div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">As Dave said though it mind blowing how tech writers come up with stuff. Granted SL does not really engage in that area but there are so many resources available and willing to validate their articles you would think they would have the integrity to use them.<br><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">WP</div></div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Thu, Sep 22, 2022, 5:01 AM Mike Puchol via Starlink <<a href="mailto:starlink@lists.bufferbloat.net">starlink@lists.bufferbloat.net</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
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<div dir="auto">Satellites don’t get re-positioned, they are in orbital planes and slots, to move them is expensive in time and fuel, thus, once they have been placed, they stay. You can see how the constellation operates at <a href="http://starlink.sx" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer">starlink.sx</a> - you’ll quickly notice why coverage is a function of gateway availability, the constellation has enough density.<br>
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The issues in the US are twofold - many customers added while not enough satellite capacity is available (the first constellation is only about 50% complete), and many gateways only have half the spectrum available, reducing available througput.</div>
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<div name="messageReplySection">On Sep 22, 2022 at 13:42 +0200, Andrew Crane via Starlink <<a href="mailto:starlink@lists.bufferbloat.net" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer">starlink@lists.bufferbloat.net</a>>, wrote:<br>
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<div dir="ltr">Even senior reporters for tech publications have been conditioned to not look beyond "speed" numbers.
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<div>OT I wonder if the woes in North America are caused by the unplanned repositioning of satellites for Ukraine coverage.</div>
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<div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Wed, Sep 21, 2022 at 2:35 PM Dave Taht via Starlink <<a href="mailto:starlink@lists.bufferbloat.net" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer">starlink@lists.bufferbloat.net</a>> wrote:<br></div>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">I still find it remarkable that reporters are still missing the<br>
meaning of the huge latencies for starlink, under load. Just look at<br>
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