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 <dave.t...@gmail.com> 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 comment on it here: > > https://docs.google.com/document/d/1rVGC-iNq2NZ0jk4f3IAiVUHz2S9O6P-F3vVZU2yBYtw/edit > > In reviewing it today, I am so pleased that everyone here has leaned in on > the measurement side described therein, and also there seems to be a ton of > information about how starlink´s spot beams, etc seemed to work that may or > may not be obsolete within it that I would like to update. > > In retrospect, I gave up on the idea of making all of openwrt, and cool > subsystems like samba or matter, interoperate with the mesh code on the > starlink routers, or of producing a build that "just worked" on their > routers. It was too hard, and too locked down, to even try. > > I think broader mesh interoperability would be great however - living in an > age where an eero cannot interoperate with a tp-link, and so on, evades the > true beauty of wifi, and I still hold dear the ideas of starlink powering > village connectivity and local services like email, etc, as well as being a > better backup to other links, gaining BGP support, in particular. > > On the embedded front, their first router was IPQ8014 based, for which I had > labored for a couple years to finally produce a very good wifi subsystem for, > the second (and presently most popular I think? 1+ million in the field) is > mt76 based which is getting better all the time, and their latest wifi6 > product I know nothing about, and being deeply cynical about all the wifi6 > devices I had tested before exiting the embedded the market, would like > someone else to test. > > I personally exited the embedded market in favor of working on libreqos over > a year ago. > > ... and it was mostly the dishy that in the end I felt just needed a few > tweaks, and their headends. > > Anyway: given that openwrt is nearing a final release in this development > cycle and I have also been scoping out improvements to CAKE based on what we > have learned from the mikrotik and LibreQos deployments, thinking about what > is still wrong with wifi was on my mind today. In particular, I enjoyed > reminiscing about the fire I had had in my veins back then about getting in > there and making it the best ISP router on the planet. > > > > > -- > Oct 30: https://netdevconf.info/0x17/news/the-maestro-and-the-music-bof.html > Dave Täht CSO, LibreQos -- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BVFWSyMp3xg&t=1098s Waves Podcast Dave Täht CSO, LibreQos _______________________________________________ Starlink mailing list Starlink@lists.bufferbloat.net https://lists.bufferbloat.net/listinfo/starlink
