From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from mail.lang.hm (unknown [66.167.227.145]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ADH-AES256-GCM-SHA384 (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by lists.bufferbloat.net (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 5C4E63B2A4 for ; Thu, 28 Oct 2021 21:51:01 -0400 (EDT) Received: from dlang-mobile (unknown [10.2.2.69]) by mail.lang.hm (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4058010FE40; Thu, 28 Oct 2021 18:51:00 -0700 (PDT) Date: Thu, 28 Oct 2021 18:50:57 -0700 (PDT) From: David Lang To: Dave Taht cc: Mike Puchol , starlink@lists.bufferbloat.net In-Reply-To: Message-ID: <305pr7or-sp7o-n2q5-8016-q7755o67n88@ynat.uz> References: <28034.1635270711@localhost> <8007.1635359366@localhost> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed Subject: Re: [Starlink] thinking about the laser links again X-BeenThere: starlink@lists.bufferbloat.net X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.20 Precedence: list List-Id: "Starlink has bufferbloat. Bad." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 29 Oct 2021 01:51:01 -0000 As a stunt, I think they will be able to do it fairly soon, using the satellites that they have launched for polar coverage, they just need to time it so that they have birds in the right place for a few seconds (and it may not be the lowest latency possible, but as a stunt, who knows how far they could go) As a practical thing, a year or two, they need to launch a lot of new birds, and we don't know what is holding up the starlink launches the last several months. David Lang On Thu, 28 Oct 2021, Dave Taht wrote: > Anyway, good discussion on this thread!!! but all of you failed to > answer my humdinger question - *when* will they be able to route a > packet from new york to tokyo over the laser links? That kind of event > would be a world network latency record - right up there in > significance with the first inter-imp comms oct 29 1969: