that's nice Pentagon. but couldn't we have done this a little bit sooner before all the #ElonMusk#Putin bootlicking on terminal access? it's an #American company
granted, this is all "fog of war" stuff and it's probably not the whole story. i'm sure there was intelligence gathering and deception going on, "random" errors in terminals used by #Russia.
@CenturyAvocado Thanks for the info. Better spec than the landline internet of my Mum in Wales! Holy smoke. I guess it works even if u only have battery power in e.g. a caravan. Any idea what sort of power the setup demands? Thanks very much indeed for the info you shared.
It's been illuminating to watch #starlink's web interface bit rot over the past couple of years. Until last month it rotted away entirely, with the device serving up only a logo.
Amusingly some users were able to restore the old web interface, which still works because the underlying data is still being provided (and will be probably since the phone app uses the same data source). https://github.com/iam-TJ/open-dishy/
Now when I go to dishy.starlink.com, it's running on my raspberry pi.
The reverse engineering of the JS they're doing is particularly amusing. Like, it contains 679 embedded javascript libraries and all of their licenses, and 1 mb of every load is used to send those licenses over the wire.
A salesman at RU-based online retailer shopozz.ru has supplemented his usual bus by selling dozens of Starlink internet terminals that'd up with Russians on the front lines in #Ukraine.
Not as "prise it out of my cold dead hands" as I expected, so I won't be grappling with the dilemma of paying Elon more than £1k/year. Phew!
It's impressively easy to set up and use and works on the roof of my #narrowboat. The 45W consumption has some downside but the fact is I really can do 99% of what I want using a 4G mobile at £240/year. So it's not worth the money to me.
My friend, also on a boat, uses it for endless video conferences. #offgrid
“Using the current population of #Starlink#satellites we find that the brightest satellites would be naked-eye visible in dark skies, but the high sky brightness during totality will make them undetectable to the unaided eye.”
Do not have any other TAGGED VLANs leaking out on your #Starlink bypass mode link.
It appears that they answer all ARPs they see, on any VLAN tags, with an untagged reply for the Starklink gateway MAC. Also, if you have a lot of them, the Starlink will stop working (lots of on/off making around 80% packet loss average).
I have been tracing this around my network for the last few hours.
@revk Thank you! I wondered if it would be 1, then I reread where you had said if you have a lot of them and thought: You run an ISP, I know basically nothing in comparison and it's better that I look dumb by asking than by assuming.
@WilliamLeech Well, it is tricky, and I can only assume some other stages of this, my LAN got a tad upset some days ago, then I noticed starlink was very sick. The current mode of replying untagged should not upset much really as replies are on wrong VLAN (unless you overlap IP usage between VLANs). Replying tagged could upset some ARP (though it is a slow reply) and definitely upset DHCP.
It is good practice to lock every port to just needed VLANs, but "easy" to have some VLANs tagged to all.
"In the past year, the amount of collision-avoidance maneuvers that needed to happen with the #Starlink constellation were an order of magnitude greater than they were in the past five years combined."
@Powerfromspace1 It still requires regulatory approval. So far I'm only aware that FCC has given out conditional permits for "experimental" applications (like to AST SpaceMobile for testing of its BlueWalker 3 satellite last year). That said, FCC is considering a potential regulatory framework for direct-to-mobile transmissions. There's a notice of rulemaking available here: https://docs.fcc.gov/public/attachments/DOC-400678A1.pdf