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 technical standpoint is to get the mean latency below 20 milliseconds,” Musk said. mean latency is a somewhat wrong goal. It misses the impact of slow start. I figure he is mostly describing the difficult layer 2 work it requires to accomplish that, everything from doing sat handoffs and rerouting stuff on the ground, to needing more ground stations, which is indeed a giant task. I keep hoping that in particular they get away from the "recalculate connectivity and bandwidth every 15 seconds", into something more responsive for normal traffic. DNS servers on the sats would help too! and does not fit into the concept of "mean latency" at all. ... and me, all I want to see is cake on the "glitchy", fq_codel on the wifi, and for them to find some way to leverage at least some of the techniques in LibreQos (like ebpf and cake) to somehow manage their downlinks better. It does look like they are now achieving sub 30ms latency to 1.1.1.1 in some places for dns. https://home.sjh.at/starlinksmokeping/?target=DNS.CloudflareDNS1 -- 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.bufferbloat.net/listinfo/starlink
