From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Authentication-Results: mail.toke.dk; spf=pass smtp.mailfrom=lang.hm; dkim=fail; arc=none (Message is not ARC signed); dmarc=none Received: from mail.lang.hm (wsip-70-167-213-146.ph.ph.cox.net [70.167.213.146]) by mail.toke.dk (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 6D4296F0A8F for ; Thu, 25 Sep 2025 20:53:07 +0200 (CEST) Received: from [10.2.2.53] (unknown [10.2.2.53]) by mail.lang.hm (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4DAD320A24A; Thu, 25 Sep 2025 11:53:05 -0700 (PDT) Date: Thu, 25 Sep 2025 11:53:00 -0700 (PDT) From: David Lang To: Spencer Sevilla cc: Marc Blanchet , Michael Richardson , Dave Taht via Starlink In-Reply-To: <2FC6714A-76DB-4CF9-9C28-B8E5BD043520@gmail.com> Message-ID: References: <175876550514.1555.8294777204829819629@gauss> <30473.1758822310@obiwan.sandelman.ca> <8138BCB2-5CA5-437B-B12B-C3AFB1F2C669@viagenie.ca> <2FC6714A-76DB-4CF9-9C28-B8E5BD043520@gmail.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-ID-Hash: ZNNXE3PKTOIXT6BIHTIJPW5UMHBVTQZD X-Message-ID-Hash: ZNNXE3PKTOIXT6BIHTIJPW5UMHBVTQZD X-MailFrom: david@lang.hm X-Mailman-Rule-Misses: dmarc-mitigation; no-senders; approved; loop; banned-address; emergency; member-moderation; nonmember-moderation; administrivia; implicit-dest; max-recipients; max-size; news-moderation; no-subject; digests; suspicious-header Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8; format=flowed X-Content-Filtered-By: Mailman/MimeDel 3.3.10 X-Mailman-Version: 3.3.10 Precedence: list Subject: [Starlink] Re: Starlink looking less niche as its retail presence expands List-Id: "Starlink has bufferbloat. 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