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I've looked through the reddit post and this and haven't found much discussion regarding the increase in latency that would come with such a service. Does anyon
by bmon 10y ago
I've looked through the reddit post and this and haven't found much discussion regarding the increase in latency that would come with such a service. Does anyone have a general idea of how much slower a round trip is when you count the transmission to the satellites and back? In some multiplayer games a difference of 100ms provides a massive advantage, making it much harder to play competitively on slower connections.
- Anchor 10y agoThe satellites are on Low Earth Orbit (LEO), so they are much closer to Earth than typical communication satellites. When the distance from ground station is 1000-1500 kilometers up, latency is not a problem. In fact, latency via satellites may be smaller than through fiber as speed of light is greater in vacuum. IIRC in fiber it is something around 0.6c, so a 40 % off from a space-based approach. Also there's probably going to be more switches along a ground-based path than along the satellite-to-satellite route.
- rjmunro 10y agoAlso the fibre doesn't go in a straight line. Undersea, it has to route around continents and the polar ice cap, and sometimes underwater features.
- JoeAltmaier 10y agoPerfect solution: communicate with neutrinos directly through the earth for a point-to-point absolute minimum latency link.
- ericd 10y agoBrilliant. Only problem is the enormous antenna and the >99.9% ping timeout rate :-)
- JoeAltmaier 10y agoDepends upon the signal strength?
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- Lanzaa 10y ago> it could give people gigabit level access, 20 to 30ms latency, everywhere on Earth From: http://shitelonsays.com/transcript/spacex-seattle-2015-2015-01-15 http://shitelonsays.com/transcript/spacex-seattle-2015-2015-... Via: https://www.reddit.com/r/spacex/comments/5d9724/spacex_has_filed_for_their_massive_constellation/da35wwe/ https://www.reddit.com/r/spacex/comments/5d9724/spacex_has_f...