<div dir="auto">Yep. Better than starlink. </div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Wed, May 1, 2024, 12:32 AM Brian Munyao Longwe via LibreQoS <<a href="mailto:libreqos@lists.bufferbloat.net">libreqos@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"><div dir="auto">Just got this result from my house in Lilongwe, Malawi, which is connected via fiber to a POP 12kms away which backhauls over Ubiquiti Wave to our core, which is then connected via Zambia to South African submarine cables. Our LibreQOS box sits between our core and border devices.</div><div dir="auto"><div><img src="cid:18f33107744ccc3d4701" style="max-width:100%"></div><br></div><div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Wed, 1 May 2024 at 9:28 AM, Frantisek Borsik via LibreQoS <<a href="mailto:libreqos@lists.bufferbloat.net" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer">libreqos@lists.bufferbloat.net</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left-width:1px;border-left-style:solid;padding-left:1ex;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204)"><div dir="ltr">Basically, Eugene, the situation you are describing is calling for a competitor to disrupt them!<div><br></div><div>This is such an old story - so many ISPs, especially WIPSs, started just because they either didn't have any option or all those options available were really terrible.</div><div><br></div><div>Don't you want to pick up the glove? :P</div></div><div dir="ltr"><div><br clear="all"><div><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div>All the best,</div><div><br></div><div><p class="MsoNormal" style="color:rgb(34,34,34)">Frank<u></u><u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="color:rgb(34,34,34)"><u></u><u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="color:rgb(34,34,34)">Frantisek (Frank) Borsik<u></u><u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="color:rgb(34,34,34)"><u></u> <u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="color:rgb(34,34,34)"><a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/frantisekborsik" style="color:rgb(17,85,204)" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer">https://www.linkedin.com/in/frantisekborsik</a><u></u><u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="color:rgb(34,34,34)">Signal, Telegram, WhatsApp: +421919416714 <u></u><u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="color:rgb(34,34,34)">iMessage, mobile: +420775230885<u></u><u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="color:rgb(34,34,34)">Skype: casioa5302ca<u></u><u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="color:rgb(34,34,34)"><a href="mailto:frantisek.borsik@gmail.com" style="color:rgb(17,85,204)" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer">frantisek.borsik@gmail.com</a></p></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div><br></div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Tue, Apr 30, 2024 at 11:53 PM Eugene Y Chang <<a href="mailto:eugene.chang@ieee.org" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer">eugene.chang@ieee.org</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left-width:1px;border-left-style:solid;padding-left:1ex;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204)"><div style="line-break:after-white-space">Frank,<div>Thank you. What you suggest makes sense if it was objective!</div><div><br></div><div>In my neighborhood, the ISP’s organization will feel they have nothing to learn from outsiders. (Worst, both major ISPs are just a subsidiary of another organization. They just implement corporate standards. The local managers are not motivated to deviate from their corporate marching orders.)</div><div><br></div><div>A public promotion (campaign) of modern best practices is needed. Then I need to have this campaign spill over to the subscriber community. The business community needs to be educated that their productivity will improve. The social leaders need to learn that their community will get better service. Then, and only then, can I see the ISP feeling the need to improve. It helps if the improvement is just open-source software on their hardware investment.</div><div><br></div><div><div><div dir="auto" style="letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;text-decoration:none;line-break:after-white-space;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><div dir="auto" style="letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;text-decoration:none;line-break:after-white-space;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><div dir="auto" style="letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;text-decoration:none;line-break:after-white-space;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><div dir="auto" style="letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;text-decoration:none;line-break:after-white-space;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><div dir="auto" style="letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;text-decoration:none;line-break:after-white-space;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><div dir="auto" style="letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;text-decoration:none;line-break:after-white-space;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><div dir="auto" style="letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;text-decoration:none;line-break:after-white-space;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><div dir="auto" style="letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;text-decoration:none;line-break:after-white-space;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><div><br>Gene<br>----------------------------------------------<br>Eugene Chang</div><div>IEEE Life Senior Member</div><div><br></div><div><br></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div>
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<div><br><blockquote type="cite"><div>On Apr 30, 2024, at 11:35 AM, Frantisek Borsik <<a href="mailto:frantisek.borsik@gmail.com" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer">frantisek.borsik@gmail.com</a>> wrote:</div><br><div><div dir="ltr">Eugene - the easiest thing in the case of your ISP would be tell him about us: <a href="https://libreqos.io/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer">https://libreqos.io</a><div><br></div><div>He can take a look on it, join our support chat and get help if he won't be able to get it up and running: <a href="https://chat.libreqos.io/join/fvu3cerayyaumo377xwvpev6/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer">https://chat.libreqos.io/join/fvu3cerayyaumo377xwvpev6/</a></div><div><br></div><div>But most of the ISPs don't need to talk with us at all, it's easy to deploy.</div><div><br></div><div><br clear="all"><div><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div>All the best,</div><div><br></div><div><p class="MsoNormal" style="color:rgb(34,34,34)">Frank<u></u><u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="color:rgb(34,34,34)"><u></u><u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="color:rgb(34,34,34)">Frantisek (Frank) Borsik<u></u><u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="color:rgb(34,34,34)"><u></u> <u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="color:rgb(34,34,34)"><a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/frantisekborsik" style="color:rgb(17,85,204)" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer">https://www.linkedin.com/in/frantisekborsik</a><u></u><u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="color:rgb(34,34,34)">Signal, Telegram, WhatsApp: +421919416714 <u></u><u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="color:rgb(34,34,34)">iMessage, mobile: +420775230885<u></u><u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="color:rgb(34,34,34)">Skype: casioa5302ca<u></u><u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="color:rgb(34,34,34)"><a href="mailto:frantisek.borsik@gmail.com" style="color:rgb(17,85,204)" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer">frantisek.borsik@gmail.com</a></p></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div><br></div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Tue, Apr 30, 2024 at 11:22 PM Eugene Y Chang 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-width:1px;border-left-style:solid;padding-left:1ex;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204)"><div style="line-break:after-white-space">OK. I need help teaching my ISPs that they can do this without threatening their business model.<div>Who can help me?</div><div><br></div><div>A public demo? Yes! Are you saying that if our (my) neighborhood ISP adopted the lessons from the public demo, most of the latency issues would be solved? What won’t get fixed? How do we make this a widely adopted best practice? Am I crying over issues that are already fixed? Does this simplify the issues at the FCC?<br><div>
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<div><br><blockquote type="cite"><div>On Apr 30, 2024, at 11:07 AM, Dave Taht <<a href="mailto:dave.taht@gmail.com" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer">dave.taht@gmail.com</a>> wrote:</div><br><div><div dir="auto">Just fq codel or cake everything and you get all that.<div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">Libreqos is free software for those that do not want to update their data plane. Perhaps we should do a public demo of what it can do for every tech on the planet. Dsl benefits, fiber does also (but it is the stats that matter more on fiber because the customer wifi becomes bloated)</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">Starlink merely fq codeled their wifi and did some aqm work (not codel I think) to get the amazing results they are getting today. I don't have the waveform test results handy but they are amazing. I feel a sea change in the wind...</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto"><br></div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Tue, Apr 30, 2024, 12:51 PM Eugene Y Chang 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-width:1px;border-left-style:solid;padding-left:1ex;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204)"><div style="line-break:after-white-space">Colin,<div>I am overwhelmed with all the reasons that prevent low(er) or consistent latency.</div><div>I think that our best ISP offerings should deliver graceful, agile, or nimble service. Sure, handle all the high-volume data. The high-volume service just shouldn’t preclude graceful service. Yes, the current ISP practices fall short. Can we help them improve their service?</div><div><br></div><div>Am I asking too much?</div><div><br><div><div dir="auto" style="letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;text-decoration:none;line-break:after-white-space"><div dir="auto" style="letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;text-decoration:none;line-break:after-white-space"><div dir="auto" style="letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;text-decoration:none;line-break:after-white-space"><div dir="auto" style="letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;text-decoration:none;line-break:after-white-space"><div dir="auto" style="letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;text-decoration:none;line-break:after-white-space"><div dir="auto" style="letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;text-decoration:none;line-break:after-white-space"><div dir="auto" style="letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;text-decoration:none;line-break:after-white-space"><div dir="auto" style="letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;text-decoration:none;line-break:after-white-space"><div>Gene<br>----------------------------------------------<br>Eugene Chang</div><div>IEEE Life Senior Member</div><div><br></div><div><br><br></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div>
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<div><br><blockquote type="cite"><div>On Apr 30, 2024, at 9:31 AM, Colin_Higbie via Starlink <<a href="mailto:starlink@lists.bufferbloat.net" rel="noreferrer noreferrer" target="_blank">starlink@lists.bufferbloat.net</a>> wrote:</div><br><div><div>Gene,<br><br>I think the lion's share of other people (many brilliant people here) on this thread are focused on keeping latency down when under load. I generally just read and don't contribute on those discussions, because that's not my area of expertise. I only posted my point on bandwidth, not to detract from the importance of reducing latency, but to correct what I believed to be an important error on minimum bandwidth required to be able to perform standard Internet functions. <br><br>To my surprise, there was pushback on the figure, so I've responded to try to educate this group on streaming usage in the hope that the people working on the latency problem under load (core reason for this group to exist) can also be aware of the minimum bandwidth needs to ensure they don't plan based on bad assumptions.<br><br>For a single user, minimum bandwidth (independent of latency) needs to be at least 25Mbps assuming the goal is to provide access to all standard Internet services. Anything short of that will deny users access to the primary streaming services, and more specifically won't be able to watch 4K HDR video, which is the market standard for streaming services today and likely will remain at that level for the next several years.<br><br>I think it's fine to offer lower-cost options that don't deliver 4K HDR video (not everyone cares about that), but at least 25Mbps should be available to an Internet customer for any new Internet service rollout.<br><br>Cheers,<br>Colin<br><br><br>-----Original Message-----<br>From: Starlink <<a href="mailto:starlink-bounces@lists.bufferbloat.net" rel="noreferrer noreferrer" target="_blank">starlink-bounces@lists.bufferbloat.net</a>> On Behalf Of <a href="mailto:starlink-request@lists.bufferbloat.net" rel="noreferrer noreferrer" target="_blank">starlink-request@lists.bufferbloat.net</a><br>Sent: Tuesday, April 30, 2024 3:05 PM<br>To: <a href="mailto:starlink@lists.bufferbloat.net" rel="noreferrer noreferrer" target="_blank">starlink@lists.bufferbloat.net</a><br>Subject: Starlink Digest, Vol 37, Issue 15<br><br><br>----------------------------------------------------------------------<br><br>Message: 1<br>Date: Tue, 30 Apr 2024 09:04:43 -1000<br>From: Eugene Y Chang <<a href="mailto:eugene.chang@ieee.org" rel="noreferrer noreferrer" target="_blank">eugene.chang@ieee.org</a>><br>To: Colin_Higbie <<a href="mailto:CHigbie1@Higbie.name" rel="noreferrer noreferrer" target="_blank">CHigbie1@Higbie.name</a>>, Dave Taht via Starlink<br><span style="white-space:pre-wrap"> </span><<a href="mailto:starlink@lists.bufferbloat.net" rel="noreferrer noreferrer" target="_blank">starlink@lists.bufferbloat.net</a>><br>Subject: Re: [Starlink] It’s the Latency, FCC<br>Message-ID: <<a href="mailto:438B1BC4-D465-497A-B6BA-700E1D411036@ieee.org" rel="noreferrer noreferrer" target="_blank">438B1BC4-D465-497A-B6BA-700E1D411036@ieee.org</a>><br>Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8"<br><br>I am always surprised how complicated these discussions become. (Surprised mostly because I forgot the kind of issues this community care about.) The discussion doesn’t shed light on the following scenarios.<br><br>While watching stream content, activating controls needed to switch content sometimes (often?) have long pauses. I attribute that to buffer bloat and high latency.<br><br>With a happy household user watching streaming media, a second user could have terrible shopping experience with Amazon. The interactive response could be (is often) horrible. (Personally, I would be doing email and working on a shared doc. The Amazon analogy probably applies to more people.)<br><br>How can we deliver graceful performance to both persons in a household?<br>Is seeking graceful performance too complicated to improve?<br>(I said “graceful” to allow technical flexibility.)<br><br>Gene<br>----------------------------------------------<br>Eugene Chang<br><br>_______________________________________________<br>Starlink mailing list<br><a href="mailto:Starlink@lists.bufferbloat.net" rel="noreferrer noreferrer" target="_blank">Starlink@lists.bufferbloat.net</a><br><a href="https://lists.bufferbloat.net/listinfo/starlink" rel="noreferrer noreferrer" target="_blank">https://lists.bufferbloat.net/listinfo/starlink</a><br></div></div></blockquote></div><br></div></div>_______________________________________________<br>
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