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From: Dave Taht <dave.taht@gmail.com>
To: Alexandre Petrescu <alexandre.petrescu@gmail.com>
Cc: starlink@lists.bufferbloat.net, J Pan <Pan@uvic.ca>
Subject: Re: [Starlink] Measuring a Low-Earth-Orbit Satellite Network
Date: Fri, 15 Sep 2023 11:03:16 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAA93jw4gQQBDanR6q_GV_xeFCVYwyocrESf8jyuXoL8n_Lc0pA@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <6244255c-f9c5-490c-b740-38353af2e60a@gmail.com>

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On Fri, Sep 15, 2023 at 3:58 AM Alexandre Petrescu via Starlink <
starlink@lists.bufferbloat.net> wrote:

>
> Le 17/08/2023 à 18:42, Dave Taht via Starlink a écrit :
> > On Thu, Aug 17, 2023 at 7:47 AM Dave Taht <dave.taht@gmail.com> wrote:
> >> This paper, at first glance, looks really, really good, measuring
> >> detailed topology of the starlink network:
> >> https://arxiv.org/abs/2307.06863
> >>
> >> Thank you J Pan for passing it along!
> > More recent data here:
> >
> https://www.reddit.com/r/StarlinkEngineering/comments/15p76j4/impressive_improvement_in_three_months_no_longer/
>
> Sorry but I do not understand the graphs.  The URL sounds great.
>
>
I have cc´d the author.


> For my part, I can tell that I follow one particular sat chosen
> arbitrarily (STARLINK-6064) on a public database since some weeks now
> and it keeps at around 360km altitude.   That is much lower than
> 500-or-so usual.  Maybe it is that lower altitude that permits a higher
> performance (lower latencies).
>

Pretty neat!


>
> (there are other sats even lower, but not sure whether they're there in
> error or on their way up).
>


this was really good:
https://radionavlab.ae.utexas.edu/wp-content/uploads/2023/01/starlink_structure.pdf

Getting more correlated results from two or more stations in the same cell
would help.


> Alex
>
> >
> >>
> >> ---------- Forwarded message ---------
> >> From: J Pan <Pan@uvic.ca>
> >> Date: Wed, Aug 16, 2023 at 11:02 PM
> >> Subject: starlink
> >> To: dave.taht@gmail.com <dave.taht@gmail.com>
> >>
> >>
> >> Hi Dave: thanks for your libreqos work. did you see
> >> https://arxiv.org/abs/2307.06863 ? cheers.  -j
> >> --
> >> J Pan, UVic CSc, ECS566, 250-472-5796 (NO VM), Pan@UVic.CA,
> Web.UVic.CA/~pan
> >>
> >>
> >> --
> >> Podcast: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bxmoBr4cBKg
> >> Dave Täht CSO, LibreQos
> >
> >
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  parent reply	other threads:[~2023-09-15 18:03 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
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2023-08-17 14:47 ` Dave Taht
2023-08-17 16:42   ` Dave Taht
2023-09-15 10:58     ` Alexandre Petrescu
2023-09-15 17:44       ` David Lang
2023-09-15 18:03       ` Dave Taht [this message]
2023-09-21 12:26         ` Alexandre Petrescu

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