[indigodaddy]

If it were BGP/routing, you would think we'd be able to still get a signal and the modem would think it's healthy (although maybe not if the issue prevented us from obtaining our public IP), we just wouldn't be able to route to any dst. In the current case we don't have a signal (orange light on the modem)

[ta1243]

Yes, before the drop out my traffic was coming from a downlink station in Bulgaria, on an IP on AS14593

Traceroute from "the internet" back to that IP reaches AS14593 just fine, and my endpoint doesn't get beyond the first hop of the local starlink router.

Whatever it is, it doesn't look like a peering problem

[indigodaddy]

https://mtr.ping.pe ftw for MTR from "the internet" ? :)

[ta1243]

From various monitoring points I have on multiple internet connections.

One of the promises of starlink was it would stay in space as long as possible before being downlinked, giving far lower latency, alas that hasn't happened yet, and traffic will run thousands of miles in the wrong direction before being downlinked. For example from one location to another I have 360ms via Starlink but just 200ms rtt via local provision (5g p2p wireless then optical). On another it used to downlink in Lagos, but now it downlinks in Nairobi, meaning traffic to Lagos routes Nairobi -> Marseille -> Lagos, taking far longer than it used to. A shame really.

[dave_universetf]

Does the orange light specifically mean no RF link at all? Or does it include anything that prevents the modem from getting an IP address and route configuration? If the latter, BGP could still be at fault if it took out access to the control planes on the ground. But again all just guessing, from the outside all I see is the BGP routes are still being announced, and everyone seems to be seeing 100% packet loss and zero traffic.

[indigodaddy]

Right, good point that could be the case, those were just my assumptions and probably jumping to conclusions on my part speculating that orange means no signal (don't actually have any idea :) ). Imagine it could be any of what you said too.

[FollowingTheDao]

That sounds bad…