[Starlink] Fwd: [Bloat] fq_codel Day - it's twelve years old!

2024-05-14 Thread Dave Taht via Starlink
I would never have imagined it would have taken this long for 300 lines of code to propagate across the planet. -- Forwarded message - From: Rich Brown via Bloat Date: Tue, May 14, 2024, 8:15 AM Subject: [Bloat] fq_codel Day - it's twelve years old! To: bloat My calendar remind

Re: [Starlink] It’s the Latency, FCC

2024-05-14 Thread Dave Taht via Starlink
> To my surprise, there was pushback on the figure, so I've responded to >>>> try to educate this group on streaming usage in the hope that the people >>>> working on the latency problem under load (core reason for this group to >>>> exist) can also be aware of the minimum bandwidth needs to ensure they >>>> don't plan bas

[Starlink] bloat on wifi8 and 802.11 wg

2024-05-08 Thread Dave Taht via Starlink
I wish I had gone to the 802.11wg more regularly than I did. I only gave one bloat related presentation in 2014, shipped the make-wifi-fast code in 2016(?), and never went back. IETF ate all my money and time. I just assumed they were all in the slipstream of linux and openwrt. :/ I did have a gr

Re: [Starlink] revisiting the old "starwrt" plan

2024-05-08 Thread Dave Taht via Starlink
Sometimes I look at this old document and dream about what might have been. On Thu, Sep 21, 2023 at 7:37 PM Dave Taht wrote: > > > A genesis point for the creation of this email list was this failed, too > ambitious, and too multi-faceted, project proposal from over 2 years back. > See and comm

Re: [Starlink] The "reasons" that bufferbloat isn't a problem

2024-05-07 Thread Dave Taht via Starlink
This was a wonderful post, rich! I note that preseem, paraqum, bequant and libreqos (a bufferbloat.net backed project) are in the fq codel or cake Middlebox for isps *Qoe) market and all of us have made a substantial dent in the problem for oh, call it 1000 isps worldwide total between us. Comcas

Re: [Starlink] The "reasons" that bufferbloat isn't a problem

2024-05-07 Thread Dave Taht via Starlink
re. I do wish SCE had won, as it was backwards compatible. On Tue, May 7, 2024 at 12:15 PM Jeremy Austin wrote: > > > > On Tue, May 7, 2024 at 11:11 AM Dave Taht via Starlink > wrote: >> >> The RFC is very plausible but the methods break down in multiple ways, >&

Re: [Starlink] The "reasons" that bufferbloat isn't a problem

2024-05-07 Thread Dave Taht via Starlink
one > > Regards, > > David F. > > Date: Tue, 7 May 2024 06:50:41 -0400 > From: Rich Brown > To: Eugene Y Chang > Cc: Sebastian Moeller , Colin_Higbie > , Dave Taht via Starlink > > Subject: Re: [Starlink] The "reasons" that bufferbloat is

Re: [Starlink] It’s the Latency, FCC

2024-04-30 Thread Dave Taht via Starlink
On Tue, Apr 30, 2024, 3:42 PM Rich Brown wrote: > > On Apr 30, 2024, at 6:10 PM, Dave Taht wrote: > > I think that the starlink results will create competitive pressure on the > landline ISPs (and starlink will continue their rapid growth, being that > they drop their next hop direct into multip

Re: [Starlink] It’s the Latency, FCC

2024-04-30 Thread Dave Taht via Starlink
; > Cheers, > Colin > > > -Original Message- > From: Starlink On Behalf Of > starlink-requ...@lists.bufferbloat.net > Sent: Tuesday, April 30, 2024 3:05 PM > To: starlink@lists.bufferbloat.net > Subject: Starlink Digest, Vol 37, Issue 15 > > > -

[Starlink] apologies for the flood of backlogged email

2024-04-29 Thread Dave Taht via Starlink
I have been very busy on other things these past few months and got behind on managing the list. Apologies. The highlight of my year (so far) was camping out at cape canaveral 2 weeks ago and seeing two starlink launches, playing the heck out of my guitar, and piano... and ultimately... appearing

[Starlink] waves podcast is out

2024-04-29 Thread Dave Taht via Starlink
I did my usual bufferbloat rap on this pretty excellent podcast. What I am most proud of however, was showing off my mom´s art in this segment here, including her most powerful piece "Sad Sam". https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BVFWSyMp3xg&t=1098s -- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N0Tmvv5jJKs Epi

Re: [Starlink] Sidebar to It’s the Latency, FCC: Measure it?

2024-03-18 Thread Dave Taht via Starlink
I am curious what the real world bandwidth requirements are for live sports, streaming? I imagine during episodes of high motion, encoders struggle. On Mon, Mar 18, 2024 at 12:42 PM Colin_Higbie via Starlink wrote: > > To the comments and question from Dave Collier-Brown in response to my sayin

Re: [Starlink] It’s the Latency, FCC

2024-03-14 Thread Dave Taht via Starlink
There was a statement at the end of your blog post that I did not have privs to respond to. Honest question: What does digital equity really mean to most people? "Digital equity is a condition in which all individuals and communities have the information technology capacity needed for full partic

[Starlink] SCALE 21x conference this week results?

2024-03-14 Thread Dave Taht via Starlink
I am curious if anyone here is at scale this week? (it is in pasadena, and one of my favorite conferences - https://www.socallinuxexpo.org/scale/21x ) One of our core bufferbloat contributors (david lang) used to fq_codel the wifi there and they built custom boxes to manage the wifi in general (lev

[Starlink] NTIA: national spectrum strategy

2024-03-14 Thread Dave Taht via Starlink
A long document describing this appeared a bit back. I do not know how much or even if, it differs in any substantial respect from prior strategies. https://www.ntia.gov/sites/default/files/publications/national-spectrum-strategy-implementation-plan.pdf In other news, the House voted to ban tikt

Re: [Starlink] FCC Denies Starlink Low-Orbit Bid for Lower Latency (Mark Harris)

2024-03-13 Thread Dave Taht via Starlink
To elon´s comment - for gaming, consistent latency is more important than low latency. Most game netcode can compensate for a consistent range of rtts in the 20-100ms range, but not jitter in that range or beyond. Certainly consistently low latency is great for gaming (vr/ar) also, and a big benefi

[Starlink] starship launch attempt 8AM EST march 14th

2024-03-13 Thread Dave Taht via Starlink
For those of you not hitting reload on starship news by the minute... https://www.spacex.com/launches/mission/?missionId=starship-flight-3 I had hoped to fly in for the party tonight, but alas - I can see them not launching tomorrow as being likely but after a launch (perhaps by the weekend) I am

[Starlink] father of quic on congestion collapse

2024-03-12 Thread Dave Taht via Starlink
I had missed this talk of his. Great talk: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fOYOvp6X10g -- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N0Tmvv5jJKs Epik Mellon Podcast Dave Täht CSO, LibreQos ___ Starlink mailing list Starlink@lists.bufferbloat.net https://lists.buf

Re: [Starlink] SpaceX: "IMPROVING STARLINK’S LATENCY" (via Nathan Owens)

2024-03-08 Thread Dave Taht via Starlink
I am deeply appreciative of everyones efforts here over the past 3 years, and within starlink burning the midnight oil on their 20ms goal, (especially nathan) to make all the progress made on their systems in these past few months. I was so happy to burn about 12 minutes, publicly, taking apart

[Starlink] a very good day for fq_codel... and starlink... and network latency

2024-03-08 Thread Dave Taht via Starlink
"Over the past month, we have meaningfully reduced median and worst-case latency for users around the world" → https://api.starlink.com/public-files/StarlinkLatency.pdf Thread here: https://twitter.com/Starlink/status/1766179308887028005 It's a really beautiful plot and invalidates a few pap

[Starlink] Fwd: FW: Memorial service for David Mills

2024-03-07 Thread Dave Taht via Starlink
-- Forwarded message - From: Dave Hart Date: Thu, Mar 7, 2024 at 3:18 PM Subject: Fwd: FW: Memorial service for David Mills To: , NTP WG , < time-n...@lists.febo.com>, NANOG The University of Delaware is hosting a memorial service for "Father Time" David Mills this coming Monday

[Starlink] latency on hackernews

2024-02-28 Thread Dave Taht via Starlink
This was delicious: "If latency doesn’t matter, can I create a service that cross-ships 1TB HDDs overnight and call it broadband?" - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39533800#39534166 Could someone weigh in over there with the current starlink measuremetns. On Tue, Feb 27, 2024 at 11:08 PM

[Starlink] starlink IXP peering progress

2024-02-26 Thread Dave Taht via Starlink
One of the things I learned today was that starlink has published an extensive guide as to how existing BGP AS holders can peer with them to get better service. I am curious if there is a way to see how many have peered already, how many they could actually peer with?, and progress over time since

Re: [Starlink] starlink business peering

2024-02-26 Thread Dave Taht via Starlink
Ooops I meant this to be in response to your last point below... On Tue, Feb 27, 2024 at 2:31 AM Dave Taht wrote: > > Starlink has described how to peer with them extensively now. It is > still kind of confusing to me - say I had fios to the business, and a > AS that met their requirements, I cou

[Starlink] starlink business peering

2024-02-26 Thread Dave Taht via Starlink
Starlink has described how to peer with them extensively now. It is still kind of confusing to me - say I had fios to the business, and a AS that met their requirements, I could also somehow dual home that AS to my starlink terminal, and it would be a business class service required? https://starl

Re: [Starlink] Comprehensive Measurement Study on Starlink Performance Published

2024-02-26 Thread Dave Taht via Starlink
While nobody reads footnotes much, and I would really like you to cite this as the instigator of a lot of research into this area, also: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c9gLo6Xrwgw because of all that rage and frustration is what keyed off 3 years of effort. Think of it as newton noticed an apple

[Starlink] The FCC 2024 Section 706 Report, GN Docket No. 22-270 is out!

2024-02-26 Thread Dave Taht via Starlink
And... Our bufferbloat.net submittal was cited multiple times! Thank you all for participating in that process! https://docs.fcc.gov/public/attachments/DOC-400675A1.pdf It is a long read, and does still start off on the wrong feet (IMHO), in particular not understanding the difference between id

[Starlink] some bufferbloat history ruminations

2024-02-24 Thread Dave Taht via Starlink
I totally did not remember writing this piece about the bufferbloat projects' history (vs a vs mikrotik the then pending mikrotik deployment) before now. https://forum.mikrotik.com/viewtopic.php?t=181289 I have had several people encourage me to write a book, but I fear only 300 people would read

[Starlink] space packet protocol document

2024-02-23 Thread Dave Taht via Starlink
Given the trouble the moon lander has had communicating, I looked over this just now. https://public.ccsds.org/Pubs/133x0b2e1.pdf I reviewed a similar document for the earth-moon corridor by NASA about 2 years ago, and it was a mess of non-interoperable bands and protocols. I cannot remember the

[Starlink] successful drone attack on starlink terminal

2024-02-23 Thread Dave Taht via Starlink
https://twitter.com/Megaconstellati/status/1760996758363029734 In general, two can play at this game, and given the low cost and good range, and relative ease of building a sensor for the starlink frequencies, I see starlinks fading from the battlefield. For that matter, nearly every form of elect

[Starlink] Fwd: Job Opportunity @ Measurement Lab - Program Manager

2024-02-22 Thread Dave Taht via Starlink
This looks like a good gig for someone less irascible than I. -- Forwarded message - From: Lai Yi Ohlsen Date: Thu, Feb 22, 2024 at 3:15 PM Subject: Job Opportunity @ Measurement Lab - Program Manager To: National Broadband Mapping Coalition Hello, Writing to share an exciti

[Starlink] acts of accidental civil engineering

2024-02-21 Thread Dave Taht via Starlink
This post, and the related discussion, was delicious. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39449424 And yet our rickety world of cards still stands. -- 40 years of net history, a couple songs: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D9RGX6QFm5E Dave Täht CSO, LibreQos __

Re: [Starlink] Starlink REV4 overview and tests

2024-02-18 Thread Dave Taht via Starlink
The smoothness that you are observing, may be an artifact of the sample rate you ran the tests at, which appears to be 1/2 second. --step-size=.05 is a much better sample rate. On Sun, Feb 18, 2024 at 4:47 PM Oleg Kutkov via Starlink wrote: > > It seems that the latest firmware has some improve

[Starlink] keep the pipe full but no fuller

2024-02-18 Thread Dave Taht via Starlink
This is a nice analysis and a few animations of some core queue theory, tying back to Len Kleinrock's paper. https://dipsingh.github.io/Keep-The-Pipes-Full/ -- 40 years of net history, a couple songs: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D9RGX6QFm5E Dave Täht CSO, LibreQos ___

[Starlink] State of the Net conference Feb 12th

2024-02-11 Thread Dave Taht via Starlink
Sign up here: https://sotn24.sched.com/ Our very own Jason Livinggood, Nick Feamster, & Mike Conlow are doing what looks to be an entertaining session called "Ditch the glitch". And here I am with an almost published rant on the side-effects of slow start verses LibreQos... There are keynotes fr

[Starlink] anyone measuriing starlink this week?

2024-02-10 Thread Dave Taht via Starlink
oleg is getting some great and surprising results from his tests... -- 40 years of net history, a couple songs: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D9RGX6QFm5E Dave Täht CSO, LibreQos ___ Starlink mailing list Starlink@lists.bufferbloat.net https://lists.bu

[Starlink] Fwd: [iccrg] Agenda requests for ICCRG@IETF119

2024-02-09 Thread Dave Taht via Starlink
If anyone would like to talk about their work at ietf, iccrg is often a good place to talk about congestion. -- Forwarded message - From: Vidhi Goel Date: Fri, Feb 9, 2024 at 4:26 PM Subject: [iccrg] Agenda requests for ICCRG@IETF119 To: iccrg IRTF list Cc: Dear all, Although

[Starlink] 42 petabytes/day and ...

2024-02-01 Thread Dave Taht via Starlink
from here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39200323 There were two things that fell out of reading that article for me. "each laser is grossly underused on average, at 0.432% of its maximum capacity." + "Brashears also said Starlink’s laser system was able to connect two satellites over 5,

[Starlink] Fwd: TWNOG 5 @ Taipei - Call for Presentations

2024-01-30 Thread Dave Taht via Starlink
I would love to meet with mediatek, myself. -- Forwarded message - From: TWNOG Program Committee Date: Tue, Jan 30, 2024 at 2:58 PM Subject: TWNOG 5 @ Taipei - Call for Presentations To: TWNOG Program Committee Cc: North American Network Operators Group Dear all, I'm writing

[Starlink] great animation of the number of starlink sats over time

2024-01-29 Thread Dave Taht via Starlink
https://twitter.com/galaxylab1380/status/1751944240655929707 I managed to miss this weekend's launches. -- 40 years of net history, a couple songs: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D9RGX6QFm5E Dave Täht CSO, LibreQos ___ Starlink mailing list Starlink@l

[Starlink] Fwd: [M-Lab-Discuss] How should Internet quality be measured? Join us for our Community Call on February 2, 2024

2024-01-26 Thread Dave Taht via Starlink
-- Forwarded message - From: Lai Yi Ohlsen Date: Fri, Jan 26, 2024 at 7:52 AM Subject: [M-Lab-Discuss] How should Internet quality be measured? Join us for our Community Call on February 2, 2024 To: discuss Hi everyone, I hope your New Year is off to a good start! Writing to in

[Starlink] community gateways

2024-01-17 Thread Dave Taht via Starlink
https://www.pcmag.com/news/starlinks-latest-offering-gigabit-gateways-starting-at-75000-per-month -- 40 years of net history, a couple songs: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D9RGX6QFm5E Dave Täht CSO, LibreQos ___ Starlink mailing list Starlink@lists.bu

[Starlink] musk on mean latency

2024-01-15 Thread Dave Taht via Starlink
I would rather like starlink to get latency for voip/gaming/videoconferencing down to consistently (99.8%) below 40ms. from https://spaceflightnow.com/2024/01/13/live-coverage-spacex-to-launch-falcon-9-rocket-on-starlink-mission-from-cape-canaveral/… “The biggest, single goal for Starlink from a

Re: [Starlink] CFP march 1 - network measurement conference

2024-01-14 Thread Dave Taht via Starlink
I am hoping people are all over this. I have a few thoughts towards a paper from one of my projects, or perhaps I could just update and summarize multiple rants from my blog, and get in somehow? Anyway, if anyone would like a insanely cruel pre-reviewer, an impossible to satisfy test designer, an

[Starlink] broadband measurement summit in dc feb 7

2024-01-09 Thread Dave Taht via Starlink
This is one of those things where it would be very useful for someone here to attend, perhaps carrying a starlink antenna in their backpack, and tossing spitballs from the cheap seats in the back. Anyone going? https://broadbandbreakfast.com/broadband-measurement-summit/ I am probably at wispamer

[Starlink] Fwd: [Bloat] goresponsiveness learned a few tricks...

2024-01-08 Thread Dave Taht via Starlink
-- Forwarded message - From: Sebastian Moeller via Bloat Date: Mon, Jan 8, 2024 at 2:41 PM Subject: [Bloat] goresponsiveness learned a few tricks... To: Dave Taht via Bloat Just a quick shoutout to Will Hawkins goresponsiveness effort (h++ps://github.com/network-quality/gorespon

Re: [Starlink] Info on IP country ranges

2024-01-06 Thread Dave Taht via Starlink
I use "mosh" instead of ssh. It stays nailed up no matter what you do. It is almost a religious experience to shut down your state on a laptop, go to a coffee shop, and have everything "still there". The only major flaw in mosh is that it does not support scrollback. On Sat, Jan 6, 2024 at 9:59 A

[Starlink] starslurp

2024-01-04 Thread Dave Taht via Starlink
"Don’t Give Me the Jitters! Peter A. Iannucci•Todd E. Humphreys•2021/09/10 Capturing & characterizing live Mega-LEOsignalsforFusedandOpportunistic LEO GNSS" Despite the great title and the signal captures, I wish I had actually seen the presentation to make sense of the presentation. https://w

[Starlink] 10k starlink terminals repaired in ukraine

2023-12-31 Thread Dave Taht via Starlink
I just wanted to applaud oleg´s efforts for going above and beyond in keeping the Net working in Ukraine this year. May it be easier next year, somehow. https://twitter.com/olegkutkov/status/1741534309813518597/photo/1 -- 40 years of net history, a couple songs: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D

[Starlink] other fcc services at sea

2023-12-16 Thread Dave Taht via Starlink
On Thu, Dec 14, 2023 at 10:51 AM Nathan Simington via Nnagain wrote: > If we can provide good service to people without the huge lift of a universal > fiber to the home build, then the United States is headed in the wrong > direction and will be wasting a lot of public money. I tend to think t

Re: [Starlink] [NNagain] FCC Upholds Denial of Starlink's RDOF Application

2023-12-16 Thread Dave Taht via Starlink
I tried gently to shut down the vitriol on this thread yesterday. In general I prefer we talk about ideas, and not people. Ideally I would like this to be a place where people can constructively disagree, and I have encouraged since the start to outreach to people (male or female) that might be in

Re: [Starlink] [NNagain] FCC Upholds Denial of Starlink's RDOF Application

2023-12-15 Thread Dave Taht via Starlink
On Fri, Dec 15, 2023 at 2:13 PM David Bray, PhD via Nnagain wrote: > > This GPT(human)bot was responding to the engineered prompt: >>why do you > think telehealth won't work over LEO services? > > As it's Friday, this GPT(human)bot bandwidth has been fully utilized for the > week. Our servers w

Re: [Starlink] [NNagain] FCC Upholds Denial of Starlink's RDOF Application

2023-12-15 Thread Dave Taht via Starlink
This is principally a male dominated list, and I in general assume that the public debate over fiber, bandwidth, etc, etc skews heavily male also. It is a very good set of questions to ask about how the internet should be structured to best meet the needs of both sexes, and how that has changed ov

Re: [Starlink] Post in favor of Dave's FCC NOI comment

2023-12-12 Thread Dave Taht via Starlink
Thank you very much for writing this post Larry! You said some things that I dared not! On Tue, Dec 12, 2023 at 9:23 AM Larry Press via Starlink < starlink@lists.bufferbloat.net> wrote: > I've written a post arguing in favor of Dave's comment on the FCC notice > of intent to increase the speed

[Starlink] CFP march 1 - network measurement conference

2023-12-06 Thread Dave Taht via Starlink
This CFP looks pretty good to me: https://tma.ifip.org/2024/call-for-papers/ Because: ¨To further encourage the results’ faithfulness and avoid publication bias, the conference will particularly encourage negative results revealed by novel measurement methods or vantage points. All regular papers

[Starlink] the bufferbloat fcc NOI response is ready for more signers

2023-12-01 Thread Dave Taht via Starlink
I do not anticipate any further major changes, although comments remain welcome! Just add your name, what you are known for, country, and email address via comment here: https://docs.google.com/document/d/19ADByjakzQXCj9Re_pUvrb5Qe5OK-QmhlYRLMBY4vH4/edit -- :( My old R&D campus is up for sale:

Re: [Starlink] [NNagain] massively less drafty FCC NOI response on raising the broadband standard speeds

2023-11-28 Thread Dave Taht via Starlink
I would love an iperf2 example plot(s) (bad vs good) that a c-suiter could understand in appendix B. I am still smarting from how incorrectly this plot was interpreted. https://github.com/cilium/cilium/issues/29083#issuecomment-1824676409 On Tue, Nov 28, 2023 at 8:24 PM rjmcmahon wrote: > > I

[Starlink] massively less drafty FCC NOI response on raising the broadband standard speeds

2023-11-28 Thread Dave Taht via Starlink
I would like to thank everyone that lept into making a contribution to this document today! It is in much better shape than it was yesterday. 2 days to go!!! Please comment on the document here: https://docs.google.com/document/d/19ADByjakzQXCj9Re_pUvrb5Qe5OK-QmhlYRLMBY4vH4/edit If you like where

Re: [Starlink] fcc NOI response due Dec 1

2023-11-28 Thread Dave Taht via Starlink
Thank you. I think they have a pretty substantial track record now! Vs a vs the seeming silence from many other RDOF "winners"... On Tue, Nov 28, 2023 at 10:42 AM Livingood, Jason wrote: > > > I am unfamiliar with the processes by which Starlink was disqualified > from the RDOF? > > RDOF Phase 1

[Starlink] fcc NOI response due Dec 1

2023-11-27 Thread Dave Taht via Starlink
We started work on a response to the FCC NOI requesting feedback as to future broadband bandwidth requirements for the USA early this morning. I am unfamiliar with the processes by which Starlink was disqualified from the RDOF?, and a little out of date as to current performance. It is very clear

[Starlink] Bufferbloat.net fund drive

2023-11-22 Thread Dave Taht via Starlink
Donations to the core bufferbloat effort are at an all time low, $832.00/month. [1] I am presently also in the process of finalizing a response to a FCC NOI for which I will conduct another funding (and signature!) drive later this week. It is due December 1, and I hope to start circulating a roug

[Starlink] fire in the sky

2023-11-17 Thread Dave Taht via Starlink
Jordin Kare pioneered many laser propulsion ideas. He also wrote this song: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Ryd_p20XEU https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jordin_Kare -- :( My old R&D campus is up for sale: https://tinyurl.com/yurtlab Dave Täht CSO, LibreQos _

Re: [Starlink] anyone here using mlabs data?

2023-11-17 Thread Dave Taht via Starlink
We are still using it, but only those processed data in BigQuery (not > raw files). > > Ricky > > On 11/17/23 09:24, Dave Taht via Starlink wrote: > > https://datatracker.ietf.org/meeting/interim-2021-mnqeuws-01/materials/slides-interim-2021-mnqeuws-01-sessa-matt-mathis-prelim

[Starlink] anyone here using mlabs data?

2023-11-17 Thread Dave Taht via Starlink
https://datatracker.ietf.org/meeting/interim-2021-mnqeuws-01/materials/slides-interim-2021-mnqeuws-01-sessa-matt-mathis-preliminary-longitudinal-study-of-internet-responsiveness-00.pdf -- :( My old R&D campus is up for sale: https://tinyurl.com/yurtlab Dave Täht CSO, LibreQos

Re: [Starlink] Starlink filings for D-Band via Tonga

2023-11-17 Thread Dave Taht via Starlink
Were I as ambitious as spacex, I would be looking for other places to launch from in the southern hemisphere or near the equator. https://www.visualcapitalist.com/worlds-spaceports-mapped/ On Fri, Nov 17, 2023 at 5:43 AM Ulrich Speidel via Starlink wrote: > > OK, so this seems to be related to a

[Starlink] starship flight attempt friday nov 17

2023-11-15 Thread Dave Taht via Starlink
It is looking real: https://twitter.com/SpaceX/status/1724899815686029329 Jim Gettys and I had a marvellous time at the first launch attempt. We stayed at the margaritaville hotel, on san padre island. It was packed full of space nerds, had a great pool and bar, (oh! to talk about space stuff wit

[Starlink] bluetooth occupancy sensing

2023-11-13 Thread Dave Taht via Starlink
To the tune of dan's comments at the end, today's hackernews conversation and blog post about what can be done, cheaply, today with a tiny risc-v bluetooth sensor: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38252566 Somewhat related is "the thing", given to the USA by the soviet union in 1945, an absol

[Starlink] "Hunting Heisenbugs" talk Nov 14th 2:30 PM EST

2023-11-13 Thread Dave Taht via Starlink
Paul McKenney, inventor of Stochastic Fair Queueing (SFQ), inventor of RCU, solver of million year problems at IBM and now meta, and all around good speaker, is giving a talk on "Hunting Heisenbugs" 2:30PM EST Tuesday November 14th, 2023, at the Linux Plumbers conference. https://lpc.events/event/

[Starlink] the real state of "smart agriculture"?

2023-11-13 Thread Dave Taht via Starlink
(I am hoping others on this list with real-world AG experience can chime in? I enjoy realworld stories about present solutions and pain points[2]) I have often been dubious of the 5g hope to dominate any major component of a smart ag architecture except perhaps FWA, (where starlink is poised and p

Re: [Starlink] Starlink in Kenya (Lennox Omondi)

2023-11-11 Thread Dave Taht via Starlink
On Sat, Nov 11, 2023 at 12:49 PM the keyboard of geoff goodfellow via Starlink wrote: > > ➔➔https://twitter.com/_lennoxomondi/status/1723060544054104407 That is a very good, and now viral thread. The author agreed to look into sqm-autorate at some point, but we both agree that kenya could use a m

Re: [Starlink] [NNagain] one dish per household is silly.

2023-11-10 Thread Dave Taht via Starlink
On Fri, Nov 10, 2023 at 8:44 AM David Lang via Starlink wrote: > > On Fri, 10 Nov 2023, Alexandre Petrescu via Starlink wrote: > > >> There is no prohibition against sharing. The closest that document > >> comes to it is: "The Standard Service Plan is designed for personal, > >> family, or househ

Re: [Starlink] [NNagain] one dish per household is silly.

2023-11-10 Thread Dave Taht via Starlink
no. There is a natural limit to the number of dishes per cell. The amount of bandwidth is enormous if you discount the potential impact of netflix-like traffic, and even then netflix "DASH" traffic as well as youtube, will scale down to 1.5Mbits/sec or less. > Le 10/11/2023 à 13:5

Re: [Starlink] [NNagain] one dish per household is silly.

2023-11-10 Thread Dave Taht via Starlink
On Fri, Nov 10, 2023 at 7:33 AM Bill Woodcock wrote: > > > On Nov 10, 2023, at 12:44, Dave Taht via Nnagain > > wrote: > > Steve song's analysis here: > > https://manypossibilities.net/2023/11/starlink-and-inequality/ > > He makes some good points. > > > A) Am I the only person left in the world

[Starlink] one dish per household is silly.

2023-11-10 Thread Dave Taht via Starlink
My objection to steve song's analysis here: https://manypossibilities.net/2023/11/starlink-and-inequality/ A) Am I the only person left in the world that shares his wifi? A single dishy can easily serve dozens of people which lowers the cost per person enormously. Starlink has limited density per

[Starlink] Fwd: 25 years of embedded linux based wifi and wireless routers

2023-11-08 Thread Dave Taht via Starlink
-- Forwarded message - From: Dave Taht Date: Wed, Nov 8, 2023 at 5:44 PM Subject: 25 years of embedded linux based wifi and wireless routers To: Network Neutrality is back! Let´s make the technical aspects heard this time! , Greg Retkowski I have been reflecting on the era we ha

Re: [Starlink] "Interesting set of developments with Starlink. Musk says they will support "international aid orgs" in Gaza, Israel now says they will use "all available means" to stop SpaceX from doi

2023-10-29 Thread Dave Taht via Starlink
Sun, Oct 29, 2023 at 9:27 AM Dave Taht via Starlink > wrote: >> >> I think that the internet should stay up, connecting people to people, >> through all the conflicts we may ever have. The mails kept running - >> although censored - all through world war two - the red

Re: [Starlink] "Interesting set of developments with Starlink. Musk says they will support "international aid orgs" in Gaza, Israel now says they will use "all available means" to stop SpaceX from doi

2023-10-29 Thread Dave Taht via Starlink
I remember how twitter cheered on the "Arab Spring" 2010-2012- apparently unaware of what happened in the "Prague Spring", and how it ended. For those of you that do not know that history: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prague_Spring On Sun, Oct 29, 2023 at 9:26 AM Dave Taht wrote: > > I think th

Re: [Starlink] "Interesting set of developments with Starlink. Musk says they will support "international aid orgs" in Gaza, Israel now says they will use "all available means" to stop SpaceX from doi

2023-10-29 Thread Dave Taht via Starlink
I think that the internet should stay up, connecting people to people, through all the conflicts we may ever have. The mails kept running - although censored - all through world war two - the red cross, allowed by all sides, to keep it's relief missions running, the churches (mostly) doing their jo

[Starlink] cybergeography project

2023-10-18 Thread Dave Taht via Starlink
I really miss the tools of the old cybergeography project, like walrus, and am dying to know the interconnectivity between providers better today, especially the top 20 of each from isp to telco. It looks like hurricane just made it easier. https://www.linkedin.com/feed/update/urn:li:activity:7120

Re: [Starlink] [Rpm] net neutrality back in the news

2023-10-05 Thread Dave Taht via Starlink
y node can do with the > limited information at hand, anything else needs additional information). > What I think is elegant about flow-scheduling is that it taps into essential > information for digital communications and hence is hard to exploit (hard, > not impossible). > > &g

[Starlink] lists.bufferbloat.net is back up

2023-10-05 Thread Dave Taht via Starlink
The increase in traffic volume here triggered a spamcop alert (when I did reach out to all my existing lists), automatically triggered a complaint, a 3 day holding period that I ignored since it was just the one report, which then shutdown the server we were on, until I managed to express fully to

[Starlink] GoFundMe link for the renewed title ii/net nn effort

2023-10-04 Thread Dave Taht via Starlink
As I am taking time off from work to do this, I would very much appreciate a few dollars thrown into this new gofundme to help, which I called: “Technical input in Title II & Network Neutrality”. Please donate AND share with others! I spent 6+ weeks last time to get 260+ people to agree on the co

[Starlink] New email list: NNagain for network neutrality

2023-09-30 Thread Dave Taht via Starlink
I have created a new mailing list to discuss title ii and nn regulation, and called it NNagain, partially because Ronald Reagan´s old phrase "There you go again", transliterated, has been an earworm in my head for a week now. (this is not a + or - for title ii and nn, it´s just my earworm! now, pos

Re: [Starlink] [LibreQoS] [Rpm] [Bloat] net neutrality back in the news

2023-09-30 Thread Dave Taht via Starlink
Despite the sturm und drang here if you google for network neutrality there was a lot of press coverage 4 days ago. ... and mostly, silence, on the twitters at least. How is mastodon or other social media? I couldn´t help but notice that this was essentially, Diane Feinstein´s last press release

Re: [Starlink] [LibreQoS] [Rpm] [Bloat] net neutrality back in the news

2023-09-30 Thread Dave Taht via Starlink
The starlink list was not originally cc´d and yet since I think this debate concerns that also, I have added the cc back. Carry on! On Sat, Sep 30, 2023 at 8:20 AM Sebastian Moeller via LibreQoS wrote: > > Hi Mike, > > [I took the liberty to remove some individual address from the Cc, as I > ass

Re: [Starlink] [LibreQoS] [Rpm] net neutrality back in the news

2023-09-28 Thread Dave Taht via Starlink
I love that there are oh, 700+ people on these mailing lists, but we have zero visibility due to google not indexing them, where hackernews does. This is going to be an issue dominating the web (again, sadly) for a few weeks at least, and it would really help to be doing it there, rather than here:

Re: [Starlink] [Rpm] net neutrality back in the news

2023-09-28 Thread Dave Taht via Starlink
@Sebastian: This is a really great list of what the issues were in the EU, and if y'all can repost there, rather than here, perhaps more light will be generated outside our circles. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37694306#37694307 On Thu, Sep 28, 2023 at 12:31 PM Sebastian Moeller wrote: >

Re: [Starlink] [Bloat] [Rpm] net neutrality back in the news

2023-09-28 Thread Dave Taht via Starlink
I put it on hackernews: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37694306 I too strongly support formal NN rules, and am in general, against some but certainly not all of the title II regulation, and unlike jason, perhaps, tend to want to supercede lawyers´ claims that it can only be solved via legal

Re: [Starlink] [Rpm] net neutrality back in the news

2023-09-28 Thread Dave Taht via Starlink
On Wed, Sep 27, 2023 at 11:25 PM Sebastian Moeller wrote: > > Hi Dave, > > please excuse a number of tangents below ;) It would be nice, if as a (dis)organisation... the bufferbloat team could focus on somehow getting both sides of the network neutrality debate deeplying understanding the technol

Re: [Starlink] [Rpm] net neutrality back in the news

2023-09-27 Thread Dave Taht via Starlink
Dear Bob: I have always thought the long standing dispute over moving flow queuing (FQ) into the network has always been about enabling common carriage for the vast majority of possible use cases for the internet or not, going all the way back to the fights over it in 1989, and many discussions pr

[Starlink] net neutrality back in the news

2023-09-27 Thread Dave Taht via Starlink
Jason just did a beautiful thread as to what was the original source of the network neutrality bittorrent vs voip bufferbloat blowup. https://twitter.com/jlivingood/status/1707078242857849244 Seeing all the political activity tied onto it since (and now again) reminds of two families at war about

Re: [Starlink] tarana strikes back

2023-09-24 Thread Dave Taht via Starlink
but it seems that is not near where I am. I > inquired and they said I wasn't LOS to the tower. I responded back as to when > they will deploy Tarana radios in my area and I got crickets. > > -Luis > > -Luis > > On Sat, Sep 23, 2023 at 9:34 PM Dave Taht via Starlin

Re: [Starlink] APNIC56 last week

2023-09-23 Thread Dave Taht via Starlink
I long for an update from mark. It was a great simulation. I would love to see it use the known downlink data we are seeing nowadays, and to see it calculate best case paths. As for BARD and chatgpt: Chatgpt said I had died in 2020, "leaving behind a substantial body of work. Bard has me presiding

[Starlink] tarana strikes back

2023-09-23 Thread Dave Taht via Starlink
Tarana, which is indeed, delivering one of the most amazing NLOS WISP experiences I have ever seen, just put out this white paper: https://www.taranawireless.com/a-comparison-of-next-generation-fwa-vs-leo-satellite/ Can anyone question these Starlink numbers for cell size, etc? -- Oct 30: https

[Starlink] revisiting the old "starwrt" plan

2023-09-21 Thread Dave Taht via Starlink
A genesis point for the creation of this email list was this failed, too ambitious, and too multi-faceted, project proposal from over 2 years back. See and comment on it here: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1rVGC-iNq2NZ0jk4f3IAiVUHz2S9O6P-F3vVZU2yBYtw/edit In reviewing it today, I am so plea

Re: [Starlink] APNIC56 last week

2023-09-21 Thread Dave Taht via Starlink
One of the things that amazes me is how do they go about focusing the ISLs? There was a really neat laser MEMs switch chip that google showed off in some recent presentation that I forget the name of and a few interesting patents. On Thu, Sep 21, 2023 at 12:05 PM Inemesit Affia via Starlink < s

Re: [Starlink] the website for the end of the world

2023-09-21 Thread Dave Taht via Starlink
link a écrit : > > Wondering what else, besides anycast DNS, could be worth hosting up > there. > > > > There is this study going on too: > https://cordis.europa.eu/project/id/101082517 > > > > > >> Date: Tue, 19 Sep 2023 14:09:13 -0700 > >> From: Dave T

Re: [Starlink] Starlink Performance Study

2023-09-20 Thread Dave Taht via Starlink
Attached is a recent cloudflare test of verizon, taken about 1.2 miles from a rural tower. While the bandwidth was low for reasons unknown, the latency was... quite tolerable. Perhaps they are figuring this out. I have no idea how atlas calculates latency or loss. Over what interval? In the starli

[Starlink] starlink testers wanted: cake-autorate 3.1.1

2023-09-19 Thread Dave Taht via Starlink
The cake-autorate algorithm for coping with starlink was just updated here: https://forum.openwrt.org/t/cake-w-adaptive-bandwidth/135379/3262 A few more folk trying it out and discussing on that forum would be welcomed! -- Oct 30: https://netdevconf.info/0x17/news/the-maestro-and-the-music-bof

Re: [Starlink] APNIC56 last week

2023-09-19 Thread Dave Taht via Starlink
On Mon, Sep 18, 2023 at 9:39 PM Ulrich Speidel via Starlink < starlink@lists.bufferbloat.net> wrote: > FWIW, I gave a talk about Starlink - insights from a year in - at last > week's APNIC56 conference in Kyoto: > > https://conference.apnic.net/56/program/program/#/day/6/technical-2/ > > Also well

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