This one’s probably not a Mike question since the site doesn’t pull anything from dishy. The dish represents all of its stats via gRPC - there are several clients available. I can probably code this up next week if someone doesn’t beat me to it. —Nathan On Wed, Jun 9, 2021 at 2:12 AM Dave Taht wrote: > Dear Mike: > > The biggest thing we need is something that can pull the right stats off > the dishy and dynamically adjust cake (on outbound at least) to have the > right amount of buffering for the available bandwidth, so as to make for > better statistical multiplexing (FQ) and active queue management (AQM) > > It’s pretty simple: in mangled shell script syntax: > > while up, down = getstats() > do > tc qdisc change dev eth0 root cake bandwidth $up > tc qdisc change dev ifb0 root cake bandwidth $down > done > > Which any router directly in front of the dishy can do (which is what > we’ve been doing) > > But whatever magic “getstats()” would need to do is unclear from the stats > we get out of it, and a better alternative would be for the dishy itself > and their headends to be doing this with “BQL" backpressure. > > As for the huge reductions of latency and jitter under working load, and a > vast improvement in QoE - for what we’ve been able to achieve thus far, see > appendix A here: > > > https://docs.google.com/document/d/1rVGC-iNq2NZ0jk4f3IAiVUHz2S9O6P-F3vVZU2yBYtw/edit?usp=sharing > > We’ve got plenty more data > on uploads and downloads and other forms of traffic (starlink is > optimizing for ping, only, over ipv6. Sigh)… > > … and a meeting with some starlink execs at 11AM today. > > I’m pretty sure at this point we will be able to make a massive > improvement in starlink’s network design very quickly, after that meeting. > > On Jun 8, 2021, at 2:54 PM, Nathan Owens wrote: > > I invited Mike, the creator of the site (starlink.sx) to join the list - > he’s put a crazy amount of work in to figure out which sats are active > (with advice from Jonathan McDowell), programming GSO exclusion bands, etc. > His dayjob is in the ISP business. > > On Sat, Jun 5, 2021 at 8:31 PM Darrell Budic > wrote: > >> https://starlink.sx if you have’t seen it yet. You can locate yourself, >> and it will make some educated guesses about which satellite to which >> ground station you’re using. Interesting to see the birds change and the >> links move between ground stations, lots going on to make these things work. >> _______________________________________________ >> Starlink mailing list >> Starlink@lists.bufferbloat.net >> https://lists.bufferbloat.net/listinfo/starlink >> > _______________________________________________ > Starlink mailing list > Starlink@lists.bufferbloat.net > https://lists.bufferbloat.net/listinfo/starlink > > >