Re: [Bloat] [Cake] [Starlink] [Make-wifi-fast] [Cerowrt-devel] Due Aug 2: Internet Quality workshop CFP for the internet architecture board

2021-09-03 Thread David P. Reed
Regarding "only needs to be solved ... high density" - Musk has gone on record as saying that Starlink probably will never support dense subscriber areas. Which of course contradicts many other statements by Starlink and Starfans that they can scale up to full coverage of the world. My point

Re: [Bloat] [Cake] [Starlink] [Make-wifi-fast] [Cerowrt-devel] Due Aug 2: Internet Quality workshop CFP for the internet architecture board

2021-09-03 Thread Matt Mathis via Bloat
I am very wary of a generalization of this problem: software engineers who believe that they can code around arbitrary idosynchronies of network hardware. They often succeed, but generally at a severe performance penalty. How much do we know about the actual hardware? As far as I understand