5 ms·

Surprisingly high IMO

• jhgb 4y ago
  The DSN can receive data from MRO at Mars at up to 4 megabits per second, apparently. JWST is way closer, so it should be quite a bit faster.
• Shared404 4y ago
  I know people who live within 30 minutes of me who get less than that - and I live in a college town.
  • jhgb 4y ago
    They didn't have a 70m sized parabolic dish, though.
    • Shared404 4y ago
      They don't, that is true. It's just highly impressive to me what we're able to accomplish when we actually focus effort on a task - including getting high-ish bandwidth back and forth between something in space.
  • semicolon_storm 4y ago
    Considering that's 2MB/s upload, I get less than that and I live in a major city with a major ISP.