Our goal here is to correlate Starlink network performance reported by Michel et al. with historical weather data from Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium, their dish location. Unfortunately, for the period of their experiments (roughly Winter and Spring 2022), no heavy rain was reported. Our results are thus that light rain and cloud cover does not impact Starlink performance.
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Download network performance data
Download the UC Louvain data from here. Download at least the
ping
andspeed-test
folders. Place it in a folder calleduclouvain-data
.If you use this data in your own work, make sure to also cite their paper!
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Download weather data
We have downloaded weather data for Louvain-la-Neuve from December 15, 2021 to May 15, 2022, from Open-Meteo. Select at least the
Temperature
,Precipitation
,Rain
,Weathercode
, andCloudcover Total
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Place the weather data as
weather.csv
in this folder, remove the first three lines of the CSV file, and rename the columns according to our ownweather.csv
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Run the
network.ipynb
notebook to parse the networking data into CSV files. -
Run the
analyze.ipynb
notebook to analyze the data.