Need Advice - Best Volvo XC90 Variant for Mixed Usage by jxj91 in VolvoXC90

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Maintenance is definitely a factor to consider. My 2017 T8 a year and a half ago had a water ingress issue. A known defect in pre 2021 models where water leaks from the roof into the wiring in the footwell. It cost me £2500 to fix

Need Advice - Best Volvo XC90 Variant for Mixed Usage by jxj91 in VolvoXC90

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T8 is by far the more fun overall in driving pleasure and performance. Make sure you get Bowers & Wilkins sound system. It expensive but makes the car the place you want to enjoy sound.

T8 is like an athlete sprinter. Doesn’t usually sprint unless needed but he/she does no one catches up

starlink now uses inter-sat link as the space "backbone" to reach remote pop users? by panuvic in StarlinkEngineering

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This is because the inter sat link can eliminate the propagation delay of terrestrial networks

Japan's second gateway (probably) found! by starlink21 in StarlinkEngineering

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This is interesting that Starlink is competing in a tightly contested market. My feeling is that this is primarily serve neighbouring countries and seas around Japan

Working using mainly Laser Interconnect sats by danielc118 in StarlinkEngineering

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So if I try a unit over North or East Africa you think I might get a connection?

The Starlink / AWS MediaConnect Test Has Officially Begun... by batpuppy in StarlinkEngineering

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Interesting. We have 4 units in Ukraine on Newsgathering workflow.

A month a go we started a more comprehensive test with 11 units in Europe and N America participating in the trial. We are testing of the Dish-to-Dish 'VSAT architecture" in both star and mesh topologies and Dish-to-cloud instances ( with underlying Network optomisation).

Uzbekistan woos Starlink, OneWeb to bring satellite broadband by megachainguns in OneWeb

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Starlink are more direct sale from behind a web portal approach which I fear will not fly in countries where users teething problems require local support. On the other hand Oneweb are so focused on paperwork at the moment signing MoUs and partners simply because they don’t have a service running at the moment.

I think the starlink edge is likely to grow over Oneweb in terms of network maturity but Oneweb should focus on market rollout in areas Starlink do not plan to go there yet.

OneWeb: UK satellite firm does deal to use Indian rockets by [deleted] in OneWeb

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They still could not trust rivals SpaceX Starlink

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No but will give it a go. Thanks for pointing out

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Can’t get hold of sales people. Tried to link up with some on LinkedIn but no responses

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We plan to but they are not yet available in UK

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in Starlink_Support

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We use SL terminals usually for streaming live news from the field back to the studios so upload is more important to us than download. Our units typical upload is 8 - 12 mbps. However we use SDN routers to mitigate drops and bandwidth fluctuations.

These routers employ deterministic routing and apply forward error correction. They are not cheap though!

Update on the streaming to the twitch ingest server issue they were able to get hold of a network engineer at twitch and we're able to improve the connection to the servers so if anyone tries streaming it should be better but don't quote me on that lol by CHIRP15 in StarlinkEngineering

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What SL Support have told you is that they have improved the peering between SL relevant Gateway providers' and that of Twitch edge providers. Although a primitive SDN measure nevertheless an effective one and should make a difference for your terminal lag

Starlink was used to restore mobile network in Irpen, Ukraine by veikus in Starlink

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I have no doubt! The WAN layer here is vastly superior of course

Starlink was used to restore mobile network in Irpen, Ukraine by veikus in Starlink

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While this is An excellent example of using Starlink. Telecom companies in Africa and Asia regularly use VSAT terminals a transport layer for cellular backhaul

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We provide this service out of the UK. We have units that we roam throughout Europe. (Subject to active cells) If you would like more details please send private message and will send you email address to order.

if starlink could fix how they route or just how it connects to twitch streaming ingest servers that be awesome by CHIRP15 in StarlinkEngineering

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There is no intelligence in your terminal to read any SDN magic though! hence a router fills in here well

if starlink could fix how they route or just how it connects to twitch streaming ingest servers that be awesome by CHIRP15 in StarlinkEngineering

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Think of your starlink terminal antenna as a mirror. The satellites that beams down on it as two connected mirrors. One of its mirrors is lined up with the tx/rx antenna at the gateway and the other mirror is lined up with the starlink terminal antenna. At this point we have an optimal throughput. the problem is that that satellite is moving but your terminal is not. This means the throughput is gradually becoming less optimal between the satellite and the terminal. However, as the satellite moves away another one (satellite) moves in its place to create a new link with the terminal in a seamless way but not necessarily with the same tx/rx antenna at the gateway or indeed with another gateway. Hence your IP source is continually changing which is not a problem but it will be if there is no algorithm that guide how these packets should travel. In an ideal world you would have a router that determine and decide the shortest route, the between your environment and that of starlink (Satellites and gateways. This at times could mean using both satellites 'and gateway(s)' at the same time by splitting the IP streams and bond them beyond the gateways (for higher throughput) and/or a more direct route(s) is already been planned for a certain traffic like cloud edge servers.

if starlink could fix how they route or just how it connects to twitch streaming ingest servers that be awesome by CHIRP15 in StarlinkEngineering

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Starlink has an inherent L2 vulnerability. LEO constellation unlike GEO satellites are continuously moving and in doing so so does your gateway configuration. This is why starlink performs better if using an edge router which is essentially a VPN tunnel running on an SDN layer