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From: Dave Taht <dave.taht@gmail.com>
To: David Lang <david@lang.hm>
Cc: Mike Puchol <mike@starlink.sx>, starlink@lists.bufferbloat.net
Subject: Re: [Starlink] thinking about the laser links again
Date: Thu, 28 Oct 2021 19:01:26 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAA93jw6Sg-ych19vOO9DbUoaT4+5mZqf22sF7Vy9jyYYjnBWqQ@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <305pr7or-sp7o-n2q5-8016-q7755o67n88@ynat.uz>

On Thu, Oct 28, 2021 at 6:51 PM David Lang <david@lang.hm> wrote:
>
> As a stunt, I think they will be able to do it fairly soon, using the satellites

It would be a great stunt. Even with a few ground hops along the way,
they should still be able to establish a speed record.

> 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 kno what is holding up the starlink launches the last several months.

Bufferbloat fixes I hope!!! :)

> 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:



-- 
Fixing Starlink's Latencies: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c9gLo6Xrwgw

Dave Täht CEO, TekLibre, LLC

  reply	other threads:[~2021-10-29  2:01 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 18+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2021-10-26  1:26 Dave Taht
2021-10-26 13:49 ` Mike Puchol
2021-10-26 17:51   ` Michael Richardson
2021-10-27  6:20     ` Ulrich Speidel
2021-10-27  7:03       ` David Lang
2021-10-27  9:34         ` Ulrich Speidel
2021-10-27 10:49           ` David Lang
2021-10-27 18:37           ` Michael Richardson
2021-10-27 18:29       ` Michael Richardson
2021-10-28  8:00         ` Ulrich Speidel
2021-10-28 10:52           ` Mike Puchol
2021-10-29  1:12             ` Dave Taht
2021-10-29  1:50               ` David Lang
2021-10-29  2:01                 ` Dave Taht [this message]
2021-10-29  3:06                   ` David Lang
2021-10-29  2:38               ` Steve Crocker
2021-10-29  3:08                 ` David Lang
2021-10-29 13:13                   ` Michael Richardson

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