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 8F3A1BB77AF for ; Thu, 15 Jan 2026 12:17:43 +0100 (CET) Received: from [10.2.2.53] (unknown [10.2.2.53]) by mail.lang.hm (Postfix) with ESMTP id 16F1921739B; Thu, 15 Jan 2026 03:17:41 -0800 (PST) Date: Thu, 15 Jan 2026 04:17:35 -0700 (MST) From: David Lang To: Ulrich Speidel cc: "starlink@lists.bufferbloat.net" In-Reply-To: <5c0a93c4-21b2-4297-b4bb-befce0963a93@auckland.ac.nz> Message-ID: References: <5c0a93c4-21b2-4297-b4bb-befce0963a93@auckland.ac.nz> MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-ID-Hash: DW67CP6Z4IH5JC66H3G3JCOQGS2K5NJT X-Message-ID-Hash: DW67CP6Z4IH5JC66H3G3JCOQGS2K5NJT 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 and Iran List-Id: "Starlink has bufferbloat. 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