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From: David Lang <david@lang.hm>
To: Michael Richardson <mcr@sandelman.ca>
Cc: Inemesit Affia <inemesitaffia@gmail.com>,
	David Lang <david@lang.hm>,
	starlink@lists.bufferbloat.net
Subject: [Starlink] Re: Amazon Leo announcing up to 1 Gbps (DOWN) and 400 Mbps (UP)
Date: Mon, 8 Dec 2025 13:57:05 -0700 (MST)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <rs617242-32n8-pq57-sp99-n882sp053s6q@ynat.uz> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <5098.1765221714@obiwan.sandelman.ca>

Michael Richardson wrote:

> Would be nice to be able to afford p2p video.
> Would be fantastic if L3 decisions could occur in space when the recipients
> are "nearby'

I've seen a lot of people using starlink for zoom calls without issues

> One use case from northern canada that I'm aware is the 9am login at
> government offices.  Lots of bandwidth needed to do all that ActiveDirectory
> profile replication/update for all the people doing this at the same time.
> I've heard stories of it taking an hour for everyone to get logged in.
> AD replication ought to solve this, but apparently, it doesn't for reasons I
> don't understand.

microsoft protocols are not wan friendly, they do lots of round trips. There are 
wan accelerator middle boxes that short-cut the protocols. It's not just the AD 
lookups, it's filesystem queries as well.

David Lang

  parent reply	other threads:[~2025-12-08 20:57 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 18+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2025-12-06 15:36 [Starlink] Amazon Leo announcing up to 1 Gbps (DOWN) and 400 Mbps (UP) Frantisek Borsik
2025-12-06 16:36 ` [Starlink] " J Pan
2025-12-06 23:58 ` David Lang
2025-12-07  0:02   ` Inemesit Affia
2025-12-07  0:08     ` David Lang
2025-12-08  4:31       ` Inemesit Affia
     [not found]         ` <5098.1765221714@obiwan.sandelman.ca>
2025-12-08 20:57           ` David Lang [this message]
     [not found]             ` <2609.1765228007@obiwan.sandelman.ca>
2025-12-08 21:15               ` David Lang
2025-12-08 21:22                 ` Michael Kan
2025-12-08 23:19                   ` Inemesit Affia
2025-12-08 23:20                     ` Inemesit Affia
2025-12-08 23:33                   ` David Lang
2025-12-09  1:26             ` David Collier-Brown
2025-12-09  7:49               ` Frantisek Borsik
2025-12-09  8:11                 ` Inemesit Affia
2025-12-09  8:23                   ` Frantisek Borsik
2025-12-09  8:21                     ` Inemesit Affia
2025-12-09  8:29                       ` Inemesit Affia

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