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SpaceX working with Cloudflare to speed up Starlink service

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50 pointsjeffpalmer64 comments

This article is very vague, but I’ve heard complaints on HN before about Starlink cgnat not working well with Cloudflare.

Is this just announcing Starlink is peering privately with Cloudflare now, perhaps solving some of those issues?

Or is this some bigger partnership where Cloudflare is running some portion of Starlink’s internet connectivity?

Most other reporting online is just parroting this Reuters piece so I haven’t seen much interesting additional info.

Starlink latency is still too high, and goodput is too low, especially as they oversubscribe their service. This will help a bit, but it’s no panacea for Starlink’s woes.

Starlink latency is too high if your server is nearby.

If it’s on the other side of the earth it beats everything.

Do they actually route all the way across planet using laser interlinks? Are there any tests by someone?

My guess is that they do not.

Routing these packets around the planet would be a huge waste of their limited electrical and transmission resources.

Premium plans would fix that...

They have both sats with and without lasers. Starlink with lasers are still being rolled out.

So it will depend very much from where to where. The certaintly can go direct.

It would be interesting to know their internal routing logic but I don't think we know.

You seem to have forgotten the slogan "Better than nothing". Starlink is the best ISP available to me, and some 10-20x better than its competition. If you can do better with something else, please do.

>Starlink is one of a growing number of makers of small satellites that are focused on providing satellite-based internet, including Amazon.com's (AMZN.O) Kuiper, Britain's OneWeb and venture capital-backed Planet.

Planet is in the earth observation business, not satellite internet

And Amazon hasn’t launched any satellites yet and appears to be still years away from a production constellation.

Any indication of whether the vague “2023” promise for the large swathe of Eastern United States availability will actually come to fruition? Or is it like Autopilot in that it will perpetually be 6 months in the future?

I got my starlink two weeks ago. East Tennessee

If you're in the most densely populated part of the US, I suggest it won't get to you

cf-cache-status: HIT server: cloudflare cf-ray: 7fb85d282df8221e-MOON

yeah, maybe few space based edge nodes ? makes totally sense

Would space DNS enable some sort form of unblockable twitter/x?

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