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With 500+ ms ping and 100 gb per month I take issue with regular satellite "just fine". But I may be biased due to what I'm used to. Starlink should be much l
by derekp7 5y ago
With 500+ ms ping and 100 gb per month I take issue with regular satellite "just fine". But I may be biased due to what I'm used to. Starlink should be much lower latency, even with the extra ground hop.
- mbreese 5y agoCan you use them to communicate? Then, yes, they work just fine. Are they limited in what they can do? Of course they are, but when the entire country is largely offline, you'll take what you can get. Nobody (I hope) is trying to use the other options to stream Netflix at the moment. Would a Starlink setup be better? Absolutely, but that has also had issues, which meant that it wasn't an option at all. Hopefully are now addressed and Tonga will have better communications options. I'm pretty impressed by their ability to get a new ground station up and running so quickly.
- mr_toad 5y agoIf you’re in Tonga a 500ms ping to the US or Europe wouldn’t be unusual anyway.