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From: David Lang <david@lang.hm>
To: Ulrich Speidel <u.speidel@auckland.ac.nz>
Cc: starlink@lists.bufferbloat.net
Subject: Re: [Starlink] Quick questions about Starlink user terminal
Date: Thu, 11 May 2023 16:47:42 -0700 (PDT)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <8p6ooqq3-5rnp-3p70-7oq2-2090p20porpo@ynat.uz> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <3a526869-c718-6e25-e84b-e973427acdbc@auckland.ac.nz>

On Fri, 12 May 2023, Ulrich Speidel via Starlink wrote:

> On 12/05/2023 9:48 am, Sirapop Theeranantachai via Starlink wrote:
>> Hi, I'm currently working on packet simulation analysis over large LEO 
>> constellations such as Starlink, and I do have a few questions on the 
>> Starlink commodity terminals and ISL.
>>
>> 1) Is the commodity hardware capable of forming multiple GSL channels 
>> to multiple satellites? If it's not possible, is it possible that the 
>> hardware allows multiple downlink but only one uplink?

> Based on our observations, no to both questions - one sat at a time. 
> We've noticed that power use goes up with observed downlink rate, 
> though. Mike Puchol might be able to comment a bit more here as he's 
> tried to get between Dishy and the birds.

We don't know if this is a hardware limitation or a software limitation, what we 
can observe is that currently it doesn't appear to do multiple connections.

David Lang

  reply	other threads:[~2023-05-11 23:47 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2023-05-11 21:48 Sirapop Theeranantachai
2023-05-11 21:58 ` Ulrich Speidel
2023-05-11 23:47   ` David Lang [this message]
2023-05-11 22:05 ` Oleg Kutkov
2023-05-11 22:12   ` Sirapop Theeranantachai
2023-05-11 22:18     ` Oleg Kutkov
2023-05-11 22:22       ` Sirapop Theeranantachai
2023-05-12  0:43       ` Ulrich Speidel
2023-05-12  4:22       ` Eugene Y Chang
2023-05-12  4:28         ` David Lang
2023-05-12  4:39           ` Eugene Y Chang
2023-06-05 19:03             ` Sirapop Theeranantachai

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