3 ms·

You keep mentioning this, and I can't come up with any announcement that it would be under 20ms, just quotes from Elon saying the target was under 20ms. Is ther

• shaklee3 6y ago
  > Musk stated that Starlink's 20ms latency is designed to run "real-time, competitive video games." He also stated that Version 2, at a lower altitude, "could be as lows 8ms latency." https://www.shacknews.com/article/118663/spacex-starlink-20ms-latency-is-designed-to-run-online-games-claims-musk https://www.shacknews.com/article/118663/spacex-starlink-20m... Version 2 is not at a lower altitude. In fact, most of the latency incurred is not from altitude at all. They are moving several hundred kilometers from their highest to lowest orbit, and if you do that math that's not accounting for much of the 20ms.