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Someone smarter than I made this, which you may or may not agree with... "Why SpaceX is Making Starlink" https://youtu.be/giQ8xEWjnBs https://youtu.be/giQ8xEW

Someone smarter than I made this, which you may or may not agree with... "Why SpaceX is Making Starlink" https://youtu.be/giQ8xEWjnBs https://youtu.be/giQ8xEWjnBs TL;DR -- satellites can be faster than cables in certain cases

tacticus 7y ago
But not wider and not reliably so. Also marketing videos are always going to show best theoretical case. They are not going to show a cloudy day in a high contention network in a region not favoured by the orbit gods.