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Nobody has ever claimed 20ms to go around the world, because that's physically impossible. He did claim ping times would be 20ms, which is patently false, even
by shaklee3 6y ago
Nobody has ever claimed 20ms to go around the world, because that's physically impossible. He did claim ping times would be 20ms, which is patently false, even within CONUS. There is no "second generation" to date. They have not been launched or tested. So the more of v1 that are out, the less v2 you can launch without deorbiting a very expensive part of the fleet.
- Dylan16807 6y agoIt's not patently false! Some of the testers got 20ms already AND this is a beta.
- shaklee3 6y agoLet's revisit this. There's no point in arguing, but a single data point during a beta is clearly not what he was referring to.
- Dylan16807 6y agoSure, we can revisit this later. But if we need to look at the numbers later, doesn't that mean you're conceding the point about it being "clearly not going to happen" and "patently false" that it will ever reach the promised number? Or do you think I'm delusional to say "maybe it will, maybe it won't" and you're just humoring me by offering to revisit?
- shaklee3 6y agoI'm maintaining these are best case numbers and that they'll go up when the service is live. I would bet you'll never see 20ms when paying customers are on it.
- shaklee3 6y agoJust to add some color to my comment: https://mobile.twitter.com/Megaconstellati/status/1294628802254053381 https://mobile.twitter.com/Megaconstellati/status/1294628802... So SpaceX only has 2 PoP locations, and it happens to be the areas where they are doing trials. As soon as the ground system needs to backhaul the signal over long fiber distances, things change quite a bit.