HairyLeg
ULTIMATE Member
Very interesting & deeply technical post* from APNIC's Chief Scientist about the TCP protocol and Starlink
TLDR,
Starlink provides a somewhat unique data link service. It has a very high jitter rate, a packet drop rate of around 1% to 2% that is unrelated to network congestion, and a latency profile that jumps regularly every 15 seconds. From the perspective of the TCP protocol, Starlink represents an unusually hostile link environment.
blog.apnic.net
Heads up to EL reg for the pointer
www.theregister.com
*Possibly also appeal to the huge number of contributors on this site who post speedtest screenshots without any kind of serious analysis.
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TLDR,
Starlink provides a somewhat unique data link service. It has a very high jitter rate, a packet drop rate of around 1% to 2% that is unrelated to network congestion, and a latency profile that jumps regularly every 15 seconds. From the perspective of the TCP protocol, Starlink represents an unusually hostile link environment.
A transport protocol’s view of Starlink | APNIC Blog
How TCP interacts with the characteristics of the Starlink service.
Heads up to EL reg for the pointer
Starlink offers ‘unusually hostile environment’ to TCP
Hopping satellites every 15 seconds will do that to a protocol
*Possibly also appeal to the huge number of contributors on this site who post speedtest screenshots without any kind of serious analysis.
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