[Fischgericht]

Oops, forgot one important thing: Sure, why do additional hops if you can see the base station. But what about shared state? Why do you definitely still get a completely new session when moving to the next sat? If the laser links are working, that state should be shared between neighboring sats.

[lxgr]

Inter-satellite links simply provide additional (time-variant) paths, which doesn't inherently relate to shared state.

You seem to be under the impression that inter-satellite links somehow imply a self-organizing mesh topology that preserves terminal-to-gateway associations at any cost (including that of extra in-space hops), but that does not necessarily follow from the existence of ISLs.

In other words, your observation of occasional routing instability causing higher-layer issues is perfectly compatible with working ISLs.

[Fischgericht]

Accepted.

[inemesitaffia]

Starlink switches beams every 15 seconds and satellites every 120 seconds.

You keep your sessions through both. Lasers or no lasers

[JumpCrisscross]

> Why do you definitely still get a completely new session when moving to the next sat? If the laser links are working

Imagine Amazon 10x'd its ingress/egress fees between regions.

[inemesitaffia]

You're not getting new sessions period.