From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from mail.lang.hm (unknown [66.167.227.145]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ADH-AES256-GCM-SHA384 (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by lists.bufferbloat.net (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 788E43B2A4 for ; Wed, 31 Aug 2022 17:33:26 -0400 (EDT) Received: from dlang-mobile (unknown [10.2.2.70]) by mail.lang.hm (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6E9861459CB; Wed, 31 Aug 2022 14:33:25 -0700 (PDT) Date: Wed, 31 Aug 2022 14:33:25 -0700 (PDT) From: David Lang To: "David P. Reed" cc: David Lang , starlink@lists.bufferbloat.net In-Reply-To: <1661980642.127124118@apps.rackspace.com> Message-ID: References: <1661975488.138231368@apps.rackspace.com> <7q848925-o6qn-1934-n4s9-n493n9sp9op9@ynat.uz> <1661980642.127124118@apps.rackspace.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; format=flowed; charset=US-ASCII Subject: Re: [Starlink] Starlink "beam spread" X-BeenThere: starlink@lists.bufferbloat.net X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.20 Precedence: list List-Id: "Starlink has bufferbloat. Bad." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 31 Aug 2022 21:33:26 -0000 On Wed, 31 Aug 2022, David P. Reed wrote: > What's interesting to me is that their coverage map definitely doesn't cover > Africa, South America, Cuba, large parts of Asia, and it isn't planned - if > they had "mesh routing" working among satellites, those would be easy. But > instead, they seem to be focused on the satellite one-bounce architecture > (what the satellite industry calls "bent-pipe" however it is done). The countries covered in the coverage map seems to be as much or more restricted by regulations as anything technical. David Lang