[Starlink] Comprehensive Measurement Study on Starlink Performance Published

[Nitinder Mohan <mohan@in.tum.de>]

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Hi folks,

Our comprehensive multifaceted measurement study looking at Starlink global and last-mile performance is now available online: https://arxiv.org/abs/2310.09242. 

TL;DR: See the summary in this nice teaser video we made: https://youtu.be/WtE3MoK8J80 

We looked at several third-party measurement sources (M-Lab, RIPE Atlas) and performed our own measurements over multiple Starlink dishes to uncover the following:

1. How different is Starlink network performance globally? How do ground station and PoP availability impact performance?
2. How much latency is consumed by the satellite part of the link?
3. Is Starlink connection affected by bufferbloat?
4. Are satellite handovers the root-cause of Starlink 15-sec reconfigurations?
5. How good is Starlink compared to terrestrial cellular networks for real-time applications, specifically Cloud Gaming and Zoom.

The study has been accepted and will appear in ACM The Web Conference 2024 (WWW), which is a flagship venue that has historically housed several pioneering works central to Internet success.

Feel free to let me know if you have any questions related to the work. 

P.S. We also thanked this mailing list in our paper for providing us several key insights and inquisitive discussions :)

Thanks and Regards

Nitinder Mohan
Technical University Munich (TUM)
https://www.nitindermohan.com/

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