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Geostationary orbit is more than 25msec away.

• kees99 9y ago
  First hop on my ADSL connection is 43msec away (RTT).
  • Dylan16807 9y ago
    Yeah, that sort of thing is annoying, but it could be improved down to 4 if they actually cared much. The point here is that going to geostationary is at least a quarter second round-trip, and blows the 25ms estimate out of the water. You can put servers in orbit if you really want to, but you can't have a satellite that's both fast to access and also in range for more than a few minutes at a time.