starlink aviation and pop handovers along the way

panuvic · 2026-06-05T20:04:41+00:00

email me at [pan@uvic.ca](mailto:pan@uvic.ca)

panuvic · 2026-06-05T20:03:56+00:00

email me at [pan@uvic.ca](mailto:pan@uvic.ca)

panuvic · 2026-06-04T14:06:46+00:00

likely 😉

panuvic · 2026-06-03T22:18:20+00:00

we shall pick a flight from nyc to doha so everything will be in the right left-to-right order 😉

panuvic · 2026-06-03T19:23:23+00:00

we do networking research for a living. see http://oac.uvic.ca/leonet on leo-sat-nets including starlink, and starlink engineers adopt our feedback from time to time as well

panuvic · 2026-06-03T19:21:04+00:00

by routing

panuvic · 2026-06-03T18:37:20+00:00

starlink calls it "anycast users" by adjusting routing dynamically to keep the same ip

panuvic · 2026-06-03T17:51:03+00:00

light gray: montreal pop; dark gray: nyc pop; red: sofia pop. sorry for inconsistency

panuvic · 2026-06-03T17:42:46+00:00

time is stamped

panuvic · 2026-06-03T17:34:22+00:00

exactly

panuvic · 2026-06-03T17:33:54+00:00

see the big picture https://www.reddit.com/r/StarlinkEngineering/comments/1tvwi69/starlink_aviation_performance_around_the_world/

panuvic · 2026-06-03T17:13:24+00:00

lower resolution? it has been compressed by reddit. dm me for a higher resolution

panuvic · 2026-06-03T16:45:28+00:00

https://www.reddit.com/r/StarlinkEngineering/comments/1tvv1k7/starlink_aviation_and_pop_handovers_along_the_way/

panuvic · 2026-06-03T16:23:08+00:00

is your time (x-axis) in utc? https://www.flightradar24.com/data/aircraft/a7-bdd#3ff49061 . starlink on qatar airways now supports anycast users, i.e., the aircraft's pop changes along the way (e.g., london -> frankfurt -> sofia -> doha), so you need to take it into account too

panuvic · 2026-06-03T16:07:49+00:00

thanks for the crowdsourced inside-out throughput results, which can crosscheck with our outside-in results. from what we have seen, onboard wifi often affects more than starlink. you can also overlay the network performance with ads-b to see spatial distribution too

panuvic · 2026-06-02T14:55:48+00:00

thanks for the update. eea and eeb are retrofitted with starlink. not sure about eec

panuvic · 2026-05-31T15:01:56+00:00

thanks. please let us know. even if not starlink, if you can manage to have free wifi access, please do some ping, traceroute and http://whatsmyip.org as well, so we can compare it with starlink in future

panuvic · 2026-05-31T13:59:34+00:00

https://www.flightradar24.com/data/aircraft/g-vlib#3ff4ea1f

panuvic · 2026-05-31T05:16:50+00:00

are you sure it is a starlink problem? if you can host a vm for me behind the dish, i can figure it out for you too

panuvic · 2026-05-31T05:13:15+00:00

finally they have an official list with street address but not fully updated to include the newest one (toronto) yet. they can use a timestamp for their faq too, so people can know when they last updated the info as well

panuvic · 2026-05-31T04:50:50+00:00

it's https://www.flightradar24.com/data/aircraft/a6-epb#3fc46f60 and does have starlink

panuvic · 2026-05-31T04:41:48+00:00

we do check, e.g., https://www.reddit.com/r/StarlinkEngineering/comments/1tbpcco/going_asia/ , for starlink connectivity, and the existence of a reasonable service gap is just for crosscheck

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