I think GP is confusing things a bit. Starlink can actually be faster, but it's because laser links in a vacuum are on the order of 1/3 faster than terrestrial

I think GP is confusing things a bit. Starlink can actually be faster, but it's because laser links in a vacuum are on the order of 1/3 faster than terrestrial fiber optics. The distance is longer, but the information travels faster by a large enough margin to overcome the distance and result in overall lower latency.