[invisible]

Starlink seems to be impacted by obstructions but can still function and this would impact Ookla's numbers significantly. I don't think it falls on SpaceX to go trim the tree that is impacting a customer's speed. The silliest part to me is that Ookla is ignoring latency -- it's not mentioned in the article at all. Other satellite providers are literally >600ms while Starlink is <100ms.

[gamblor956]

Other satellite providers didn't tell the federal government they can handle 100mbps in exchange for a huge pot of government money...

This is the issue in a nutshell: Starlink agreed to meet a specific threshold in exchange for government funds, and these tests suggest that Starlink will have difficulty accomplishing this if they can't manage to do it when their network isn't saturated.

[invisible]

Yes, that is the issue in a nutshell and I wasn’t arguing otherwise…

This piece from Ookla is claiming that Starlink isn’t hitting those numbers based on data from Ookla, not SpaceX.