On Tue, Jun 29, 2021 at 9:04 PM Eric Kuhnke <eric.kuh...@gmail.com> wrote: > > I'd much rather have 0.11 to 0.25% average packet loss over a 3 to 24 hour > period than 2-3%. > > The starlink experience is overall superior at present from a subjective user > point of view.
... and I think that this last sentence is the most important one. My current Internet is a 4.3 mile WiFi link to a tower, which has a wifi link to another tower, which has a wifi link to the POP with fiber....[0] There is some correlation between what smokeping shows and what my subjective experience is[1], but it's not absolute. Hearing "this feels better/faster" is sometimes more useful than "this graph shows X". Yup, the Starlink graph showed some spikes of 280+ms, but the general latency looked low. Goodput might be great, or not -- but the important bit remains "overall superior at present from a subjective user point of view." W [0]: Yes, I did the Starlink preorder the second it was available. No, sadly I don't have it yet... [1]: Usually poor. Especially when anyone else is using it... > > On Mon, Jun 28, 2021, 10:45 AM Matt Hoppes > <mattli...@rivervalleyinternet.net> wrote: >> >> I don't know how you can be embarrassed when you have a pretty solid >> 30ms ping constantly, and Starlink has jitter all over the place and >> spikes as high as 280ms. >> >> I'll take the DOCSIS3 system.... >> >> On 6/25/21 8:49 PM, Eric Kuhnke wrote: >> > I thought I would post an interesting comparison between a degraded >> > DOCSIS3 link, of a carrier that shall remain nameless to avoid >> > embarrassing anybody, and a starlink CPE with a slight 1/12th tree >> > obstruction in a portion of its view. >> > >> > First two screenshots are the docsis3, to its gateway and to a very >> > reliable hosted asterisk system in Seattle. >> > >> > Second two screenshots are starlink, also to its gateway and to the same >> > destination. >> > >> > https://imgur.com/a/OQ5wyDr >> > -- The computing scientist’s main challenge is not to get confused by the complexities of his own making. -- E. W. Dijkstra
