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This is more expensive, slower internet access for most people, no? Satellites aren't going to beat cables
by 8note 5y ago
This is more expensive, slower internet access for most people, no?
Satellites aren't going to beat cables
- capitainenemo 5y agoTheir latencies are supposedly lower than the ocean cables - low enough that HFT is investigating. https://old.reddit.com/r/Starlink/comments/itlrjc/starlink_latency_for_hft/ https://old.reddit.com/r/Starlink/comments/itlrjc/starlink_l... Their costs are moderately higher than existing broadband right now (if you aren't rural), but in news articles I read in past as they upgrade the satellites for more simultaneous connections the goal is to have a lot more subscribers at much lower costs. Also, for remote areas of the world it would be a choice between this and nothing else. Even if you were sharing the starlink dish with a few thousand other households to bring the cost down to affordable for your area, you'd still have an improvement over nothing.