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Indeed. Surprising that such a technical article from a supremely technical and knowledgeable person would not at least have a disclaimer about it. I would also
by jiveturkey 2y ago
Indeed. Surprising that such a technical article from a supremely technical and knowledgeable person would not at least have a disclaimer about it. I would also be interested to know how much a Starlink satellite is an ASIC router vs pure CPU.
I believe a better technique would be to ping _through_ the router to another endpoint under ones own control, on the same network as the origin client, and where processing latency can be controlled. Basically ping yourself but via starlink and back.
That said, in practical terms he's quite right about the jitter problem. I maintain 2 networks myself at my remote home. One my microwave WISP for tight latency and jitter, and then Starlink for much better bandwidth/throughput.
- alfons_foobar 2y agoHe does ping through the starlink terminal: > ping across a Starlink connection from the customer side terminal to the first IP end point behind the Starlink earth station
- jiveturkey 2y agoI interpreted that statement incorrectly as being an endpoint on the satellite itself. I guess the "earth station" is the round trip terrestrial endpoint via the satellite. I was misreading it as being the local terminal.