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The site says it requires a clear sky to connect. So, in cloudy or rainy conditions, is there no connection or is there reduced speed?
by kumarvvr 5y ago
The site says it requires a clear sky to connect. So, in cloudy or rainy conditions, is there no connection or is there reduced speed?
- feupan 5y agoSo is this another product designed in California for California?
- RandallBrown 5y agoI believe Starlink is actually designed just outside Seattle.
- feupan 5y agoYou know what I mean. At $500/month it’s definitely not for most of the world.
- primax 5y agoClear from obstructions like trees or buildings, not from clouds.
- kumarvvr 5y agoOhh ok. Got it. That seems fair. Similar to a Satellite TV antenna. I get good tv reception even in cloudy conditions. I have lost reception in very heavy rainy conditions only. So I guess the same is true for Starlink too.
- LeoPanthera 5y agoRain reduces the speed and increases the latency (I'm actually not sure why the latency increases, it's not like the signal has to go further) but, it still works.
- bodhiandphysics 5y agoBecause it needs to repeat messages more till you get a clear message through
- martinald 5y agoNot sure about that? In a UDP based ping it's fire and forget so wouldn't repeat, so would show as packet loss not increased latency. Unless the physical layer is using more FEC and using longer "timeslots" to get to transmit the payload. But even that seems unlikely to cause major latency increases?
- wmf 5y agoThey may be using link-layer ARQ which resends corrupted packets instead of dropping them.
- aero-glide2 5y agoMaybe the dish is connecting to farther away satellites closer to the horizon due to packet losses on the first satellite?
- jcrawfordor 5y agoIt's vanishingly rare for radio-based networks to actually rely on high level IP behavior for redelivery, as it's much faster to fix these issues on the single radio link than to wait for things to go round trip. The data link protocol typically has its own reliable delivery implementation that will result in multiple retries. This results in increased latency in poor network conditions. 802.11 behaves similarly.
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- whoisburbansky 5y agoDoes your latency measurement account for dropped packets? Rain-caused attenuation could cause more packets to be dropped, increasing latency if you measure it as an average over total packets sent, instead of just across packets that get delivered?