Hi guys, I am wondering if anybody can gimme a hint.
I use openwrt on a RPi2 (and treid the same on RPi3 and 4 (8GB)) but on my starlink uplink I NEVER get more than 40mbit when using it with the openwrt.
As soon as I unplug the starlink from the openwrt, and plug it into my Yoga Ubuntu notebook, I can run a speedtest with more than 200mbit down, 50mbit up, but when on openwrt, whatever I try, less then 40mbit ..
Anybody has an idea what I can try ?
How are you managing connection to RPi2? Ethernet to USB?
By the way not sure if your device will be powerful enough, but a few Starlink users are now using cake with cake-autorate to keep latency low on load.
I have the rpi single-homed nic with 5 vlans. It has a mwan3 configured with a 4G vodafone connection + starlink, and on the 4G it sometimes can do 50-60mbit, which to me sounds better than the average 15/20 on the starlink. I tried this cake thing, but the best it gave me were maybe 46mbit.
What I am wondering about is, that even on a rpi4 with 8GB it doesn change much ..
I currently trying with a plain Raspi on a PI2, directly connected to the starlink. Would like to see if I get better speed like this.
Round dishy or newer rectangular V3 dishy?
Check your current obstructions/times
What does Advanced Speedtest return.
fwiw running 21.02.5 on a Wrt1900ACS on Starlink router bypass since I got it 2 weeks ago has been pretty consistent in the 170-230mbit down.
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Its the V3 dish, no obstructions, Advanced Speedtest not possible anymore, but it gave me around 240/60mbit .. same did speedtest when running it from my notebook directly connected to the ethernet adapter.
Rpi4 should easily be able to traffic shape a gigabit. What version of owrt are you using? Please post logs and dmesg using the preformatted text. Erase any macs or personally identifiable information.
5 vlans into one 1000M NIC sounds like it could be a problem. What managed switch do you have attached?
What does your latency look like under load:
I have the same. I think you will definitely want to be using cake + cake-autorate if you want to avoid massive bufferbloat (circa 500ms to 1 second), rendering any latency sensitive applications unusable.
Bandwidth is not the only consideration, especially above 10Mbit/s; latency begins to affect the perceived quality of an internet connection when it spikes above 50ms.
Not sure about how Starlink addresses bufferbloat now.
Never gave it a thought coming from ViaSat with average 1200+ms latency. I’ve never actively enabled SQM/QOS.
Not fully in tune with your ask, but does Bufferbloat Grade A, and Download Active +27ms work?
Edit: this is running from todays snapshot build on Linksys 5GHz WiFi. I’ll update when I’ve got the new build configed/tested on the wire.
If that's truly the maximum latency under saturation then I think so. Although I'm surprised.
Nope the waveform test does report quite a set of useful measures, but the top-of-line report really just shows:
mean idle latency; mean download latency - mean idle latency; mean upload latency - mean idle latency
(actually it reports max(0, (mean([up|down]) - mean(idle))) see:
This is why I personally only look at the top-of-line numbers very cursory, mean latencies are only useful to assess latency performance of the spread is super tight.
I note however that on safari the waveform test has relatively many extreme outliers caused by the browser, so I assume some kind of mean is reported simply because it is more robust and stable (people appreciate if tests under similar conditions return similar results, which e.g. for higher percentiles like P99 would require considerably longer measurement times, but I digress).
Can you expand on that? Why so?
Up until recently Starlink connections showed significant bufferbloat under maximum load just like with LTE. So I think either Starlink has fixed this or for some reason you are not saturating your connection.
