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Yeah, but latency will be suboptimal as viasat's satellites are in geosynchronous orbit. Many laws a optional, but I'm afraid they can't get around the speed of

• shaklee3 4y ago
  this is a common thing SpaceX people say, but in reality, it doesn't matter that much. streaming media isn't affected by latency at all, and web browsing/app usage is good enough. what really suffers is real time games or VPN, but that's not as common.
  • schappim 4y ago
    250ms minimum latency (just for the speed of light), once you add switching that's going to be over 400ms. You have to be pretty apologetic to accept this. I live in Australia (118ms round trip), and whenever I'm in SF, I'm amazed at the quality of life increase brought about by decreased latency. It feels like the whole net is on localhost.
    • shaklee3 4y ago
      so geosynchronous switching adds 150ms, but starlink is only adding 100ms?
      • schappim 4y ago
        Folks are reporting 40ms on Starlink and 638ms for Viasat. I don’t know what is going on, and I don’t use either service.