Re: [Starlink] impressed with my starlink today

2023-09-18 Thread Juliusz Chroboczek via Starlink
> If I understand correctly, galene would support p2p media streams? No, Galene only does client-server media. Before I wrote Galene, I experimented with peer-to-peer WebRTC, and it worked beautifully in small groups, but collapsed somewhere around 4 to 5 participants. The problem is not the

Re: [Starlink] [Bloat] retransmit cost over cellular

2023-09-18 Thread Juliusz Chroboczek via Starlink
> what apps do you have on the phone and what are they configured to update? > that will make a huge difference. It's not about my phone, it's about that of the author of the blog. > 'idle' probably isn't nearly as passive as you think it is. My personal phone is almost completely idle when I'm

Re: [Starlink] impressed with my starlink today

2023-09-18 Thread Juliusz Chroboczek via Starlink
> Admittedly, I was using galene.org Full credit where credit is due: the congestion controller in the downstream direction lives in the browser, so full credit to the folks behind libwebrtc. As to the upstream direction, we're using our homebrew code, which is not very good. We're currently

Re: [Starlink] [Bloat] retransmit cost over cellular

2023-09-18 Thread Juliusz Chroboczek via Starlink
Hi Dave! > https://nickvsnetworking.com/mobile-ipv6-tax/ « This means my Android phone consumes 4.5 MB of cellular data in an hour while sitting on the desk, with 16,889 packets in/out. » So even discounting the headers, the phone receives 70 Commodore C64 worth of data when idle. Every

Re: [Starlink] Starlink no longer available to the Ukrainian army?

2022-10-14 Thread Juliusz Chroboczek via Starlink
> Juliusz, see the Twitter thread I linked to, it explains precisely the > jamming scenarios they could be facing, and how they are possible. I saw it after I wrote my question, and it does explain a lot. Thanks. Do you have an idea how difficult it is to actually do in practice? Is it a

Re: [Starlink] Starlink no longer available to the Ukrainian army?

2022-10-14 Thread Juliusz Chroboczek via Starlink
Thanks for the discussion, David, I'm sure I'm not the only one who found it enlightening. -- Juliusz ___ Starlink mailing list Starlink@lists.bufferbloat.net https://lists.bufferbloat.net/listinfo/starlink

Re: [Starlink] Starlink no longer available to the Ukrainian army?

2022-10-14 Thread Juliusz Chroboczek via Starlink
> In essence, once you give something away for free, not even setting the > expectation that it’s a “freemium” model, it’s very hard to get out of it. If > you then claim your costs are way higher than what analysis work out, eyebrows > raise way above the hairline. Uh. Hmm.

Re: [Starlink] Starlink no longer available to the Ukrainian army?

2022-10-14 Thread Juliusz Chroboczek via Starlink
> SpaceX was too generous early on and set expectations, and now seems to > be moving to the other side of the spectrum in terms of their costs, > with figures that seem, on the surface, unrealistic. Could you please explain this last point? -- Juliusz

Re: [Starlink] Starlink no longer available to the Ukrainian army?

2022-10-14 Thread Juliusz Chroboczek via Starlink
> you need to provide the rest of the information, namely that Russia is > actively jamming communications. Interesting, I wasn't aware that they have the capability to do that in areas that they do not control. Do you have any further information? -- Juliusz

[Starlink] Starlink no longer available to the Ukrainian army?

2022-10-14 Thread Juliusz Chroboczek via Starlink
As some of you recall, Elon Musk recently posted a tweet in which he recommends that Ukraine should capitulate to Russia. Andrij Melnyk, the Ukrainian Ambassador to Germany, replied in two words. https://twitter.com/melnykandrij/status/1576977000178208768 A few days later, Musk announced

Re: [Starlink] Finite-Buffer M/G/1 Queues with Time and Space Priorities

2022-07-30 Thread Juliusz Chroboczek via Starlink
> I've got a pet theory that the burstiness of internet traffic is an artifact > of > the fact that academics and marketing departments, in a weird kind of unholy > alliance, keep focusing on peak throughput. Hmm. Packet pacing is counterintuitive and tricky to get right. It's highly