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In my experience 80% packet loss makes most common protocols basically unusable. Yes you can still get data out...but many apps will just fail due to timeouts a
by XorNot 10mo ago
In my experience 80% packet loss makes most common protocols basically unusable. Yes you can still get data out...but many apps will just fail due to timeouts and other things.
- bawolff 10mo agoI imagine the people with illegal starlink terminals are fairly tech savy and can use custom protocols. Living in Iran they probably already have a lot of experience with vpns and lower level protocols to evade censorship.
- aaomidi 10mo agoI wouldn’t imagine that no. It’s “illegal” but not hard to obtain
- onesociety2022 10mo agoIllegal just means there’s a black market. You pay some guy in cash and he gives you a smuggled Starlink terminal. Neither buyer or seller is likely to be anymore sophisticated here than someone trading in any other smuggled goods (cigarettes, alcohol, drugs, etc).
- queenkjuul 10mo agoI'm a programmer and even i wouldn't know where to start implementing a custom network wire protocol.
- p-e-w 10mo agoMatrix published a proof of concept a few years ago of an alternative transport layer designed to work over connections with a few hundred bits per second, and massive packet loss, while still providing E2EE: https://matrix.org/blog/2019/03/12/breaking-the-100bps-barrier-with-matrix-meshsim-coap-proxy/ https://matrix.org/blog/2019/03/12/breaking-the-100bps-barri...
- bawolff 10mo agoWithout knowing that much about this area, i think https://mosh.org/ https://mosh.org/ is a traditional choice if you need encrypted communication in a high packet loss environment.
- rurban 10mo agoUDP is certainly not known to improve traffic reliability in those environments. TCP is
- bawolff 10mo agoUDP is build your own reliability layer, so its going to depend on how you use it. [Of course you could say the same thing about TCP i suppose depending on which congestion control algorithm is in use]