[Starlink] Sidebar to It’s the Latency, FCC: Measure it?

Dave Collier-Brown
2024-03-17T16:17:14Z

On 2024-03-17 11:47, Colin_Higbie via Starlink wrote:

> Fortunately, in our case, even high latency shouldn't be too terrible, but as you rightly point out, if there are many iterations, 1s minimum latency could yield a several second lag, which would be poor UX for almost any application. Since we're no longer testing for that on the premise that 1s minimum latency is no longer a common real-world scenario, it's possible those painful lags could creep into our system without our knowledge.

Does that suggest that you should have an easy way to see if you're
unexpectedly delivering a slow service? A tool that reports your RTT to
customers and an alert on it being high for a significant period might
be something all ISPs want, even ones like mine, who just want it to be
able to tell a customer "you don't have a network problem" (;-))

And the FCC might find the data illuminating

--dave

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