virtuallynathan

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by virtuallynathan 4y ago
And Google will own... more than that. Google will have 19+ owned/part-owned cables, Meta has 14.
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by virtuallynathan 4y ago
There were no missions... there are now 4 or 5 more on the manifest for the next 12 months.
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by virtuallynathan 4y ago
Google Global Cache appliances are just off-the-shelf Dell/HP hardware, same for Facebook Network Appliances.
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Signal Structure of the Starlink Ku-Band Downlink [pdf](radionavlab.ae.utexas.edu)
4 points by virtuallynathan 4y ago|0 comments
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by virtuallynathan 4y ago
AMD said they are not expecting to be supply constrained.
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by virtuallynathan 4y ago
They already said it’s PCS, 1900Mhz.
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by virtuallynathan 4y ago
None are currently at 330km, and the first shells of v2 will be at 540-570km.
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by virtuallynathan 4y ago
Spreadsheet: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1tuhyh6kbyDQ2D418ug_A...
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by virtuallynathan 4y ago
If each new satellite can put down more spot beams, you can cover more cells for longer. With the spectrum they have, they could put 8 beams on a cell with 100% duty cycle, which is probably around 3.2-4Gbps.
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Brightness Mitigation Best Practices for Satellite Operators [pdf](api.starlink.com)
1 points by virtuallynathan 4y ago|1 comments
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by virtuallynathan 4y ago
A new document from SpaceX outlining all of the advances in brightness mitigation on Starlink v2 satellites.
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by virtuallynathan 4y ago
It's pretty low as long as its not a rev1_preprod, the rev2_proto2 and proto4 models use 30-50W for me.
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by virtuallynathan 4y ago
Peak time speeds are definitely a bit lower than when I was one of the only customers in the area, but it's still very good. Almost always >50Mbps, which is faster than the DSL alternative available.
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by virtuallynathan 4y ago
They barely work better than placebo, from what I saw in my reading of the literature.
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by virtuallynathan 4y ago
As of 2013, I calculated the YouTube catalog is ~375PB. It's probably closer to 1EB now, if not 2-5x that much. http://www.autonomoussystem.net/2013/07/youtube-slowness.htm...
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by virtuallynathan 4y ago
Yes, I’ve helped family/friends order, I know of at least 20 dishes delivered over the last 12 months.
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by virtuallynathan 4y ago
Have a look at starlink.sx, it’s possible a few planes have enough sats to establish laser links.
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by virtuallynathan 4y ago
Current dishy is 30-40W under normal operating conditions, i’d assume a bit less than double for the twice-as-large dish.
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by virtuallynathan 4y ago
They moved from behind Google to their own network, so it wasnt exactly turning it off.
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by virtuallynathan 4y ago
They recently added a bunch of IPv6 addresses to their GeoIP file, and announced more via BGP, I suspect its in the works. FWIW, they arent any more specifically Geo located, so this won't fix your issues.
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by virtuallynathan 4y ago
I got a 3 or 4U chassis and hacked in Noctua fans, made it silent.
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by virtuallynathan 4y ago
SamKnows is what many ISPs use for this. The parent comment is Sam, and he Knows.
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by virtuallynathan 4y ago
I 100% agree with this.
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by virtuallynathan 4y ago
Luckily we have embedded OCAs and/or peering with almost every network of significant size, so their choice of transit rarely comes into the mix.
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by virtuallynathan 4y ago
I believe in 1 case it was pathological issues with some networking equipment, but this was a recent thing, so I haven’t looked into everything yet.
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by virtuallynathan 4y ago
At Netflix, we found in quite a few networks IPv6 had much better QoE than IPv4. In a limited number of cases, IPv6 was very broken. It was almost always equal or better.
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by virtuallynathan 4y ago
Sadly not much stuff supports SRv6, and I'm not aware of many deployments.
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by virtuallynathan 4y ago
These 2 data center facilities are super small - I hope they have rapid expansion ability if they want this to succeed.
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by virtuallynathan 4y ago
It works great.
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by virtuallynathan 4y ago
> Once they do though that will be a significant shift for anyone where intercontinental servers form a significant part of their usage. I have strong doubts this capacity will be used for random user traffic. It's worth much more

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