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I live in a dense city near Amsterdam. My home does not yet have a fiber for high bandwidth connection. However, I found myself content with the 300 Mbps line s
by reacharavindh 4y ago
I live in a dense city near Amsterdam. My home does not yet have a fiber for high bandwidth connection. However, I found myself content with the 300 Mbps line supplied by cable. A typical 4K video stream is about 25Mbps of bandwidth. So, for households 300Mbps is plenty for now. What is nicer is reliability of the connections and the latencies. If fiber could bring any benefits there, I'd be happy to pay up.
How is Starlink in terms of latency?
- jonplackett 4y ago20ms according to the article
- xattt 4y agoHow is DOCSIS in terms of latency (compared to a fibre line)?
- valzam 4y agoAt least in Germany it's worse but generally fine, you can achieve <20ms ping for online gaming within or near Germany. Fiber is for sure better through but probably won't make a difference in day2day.
- lxgr 4y agoWhen not congested, I used to get about 4 ms to servers in my city. But on one provider, with congestion, that would go up to 15 seconds (yes, 15.000 ms) basically every evening during the pandemic… It all depends on how well a network is managed. This is true for ever access technology; fiber just has a lot more headroom to mask bad network management, congestion etc.
- reacharavindh 4y agoI just checked at home, and the latency I get on my Cable connection is about 70 ms on average! If Starling does indeed provide even a lower bandwidth connection at just 20ms, that is a nett win. Cool! I don't know if a fiber to home would achieve lower latencies than 20 ms.... Someone mentioned DOCSIS - don't know much about it. Is that not needed for a fiber connection?
- zekica 4y agoStarlink generally has 20-40ms of latency. Speed for fixed residential connections is different depending on congestion and trees - 50Mbps to 400Mbps for download and 10-100Mbps for upload from what I have seen.