Re: [Starlink] for those new to the starlink list

[Dave Taht <dave.taht@gmail.com>]

On Thu, Oct 28, 2021 at 7:00 PM Dave Taht <dave.taht@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> I'd presented the bufferbloat data here to some starlink folk back in june:
>
> https://docs.google.com/document/d/1puRjUVxJ6cCv-rgQ_zn-jWZU9ae0jZbFATLf4PQKblM/edit#
>
> We made the flent data publicly available via rsync here, all sorts of
> details if you want to check it out via flent.
>
> cd yourbaredir
> rsync -av fremont.starlink.taht.net::starlink .
>
> But given they seemed to be stalling out vs a vs manufacturing and as
> I was buried by my apple gig, and low on students, I put it down.
>
> Since then I have a team doing rfc3168, with viasat and starlink sims,
> looking at bbrv2, and doing higher res measurements. On no budget,
> sigh. Recently there's been some progress on dynamically reconfiguring
> sch_cake via a couple sensing methods, but it was my hope then, as
> now, that starlink made fixing the bloat a priority.
>
> with 6 upload streams, sep 4th :
>
>  ./irtt client --dscp=0xfe -i5ms -d30s fremont.starlink.taht.net -q
> --timer=hybrid
> [Connecting] connecting to fremont.starlink.taht.netrtt
> [45.79.113.72:2112] [Connected] connection established
> [45.79.113.72:2112] [WaitForPackets] waiting 1.01s for final packets
>
>                          Min     Mean   Median      Max   Stddev
>                          ---     ----   ------      ---   ------
>                 RTT  47.91ms  95.28ms  94.41ms  337.9ms  20.33ms
>          send delay  22.77ms  60.92ms  56.67ms  309.8ms  19.77ms
>       receive delay     24ms  34.36ms  28.34ms   59.9ms   7.51ms
>
>       IPDV (jitter)   1.88ms   5.09ms   4.98ms  112.3ms      3ms
>           send IPDV   30.5µs   4.96ms   4.93ms  119.4ms   2.99ms
>        receive IPDV      9ns    272µs   45.8µs  17.64ms   1.25ms
>
>      send call time   9.72µs   23.5µs            89.9µs   14.8µs
>         timer error       0s   86.9µs             610µs    114µs
>   server proc. time    620ns   7.39µs            66.7µs   7.06µs
>
> We've been using the high-res (3ms) probing technique to take apart
> some 4g and 5g realities, also, but the starlink one was fascinating.
> You can
> clearly see them adjusting the network every 15ms, all sorts of

15s I meant.

smells like IS-IS.

I really prefer DV protocols....

> (beamforming?) artifacts, the 400ms bufferbloat spike from a speedtest
> mountain about 1/3 of the way through... and I keep hoping we attract
> two people to that sub-project with dishy's in the same cell.
>
> [plots courtesy of nathan]
>
>
> --
> Fixing Starlink's Latencies: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c9gLo6Xrwgw
>
> Dave Täht CEO, TekLibre, LLC



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

Dave Täht CEO, TekLibre, LLC