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Latency is capped by two third the speed of light. The network latency is actually pretty good overall considering this (the issue is really on the user end wit

Latency is capped by two third the speed of light. The network latency is actually pretty good overall considering this (the issue is really on the user end with terrible Wifi and mobile connections). The speed of light is quite impactful when you're looking at different countries or continents.

iso1210 6y ago
> Latency is capped by two third the speed of light Starlink: hold my beer. I'm not a HFT, I know I can't increase the speed of light, I know I can't tunnel through the earth to shave a few microseconds off a transmission. I can appreciate the difference between 300ms rtt and 900ms rtt - the later being a practical minimum when you're coping with outages in the 100-200ms range and networks reroute. Give me jitter over drops any day.