3 ms·

But you're not accounting for the latency added by the many satellite hops needed to get there :) Every sat will need to do queueing and signal processing.

• dotancohen 4y ago
  That's no different that a terrestrial network, in fact it's likely quicker as for better or for worse they're likely not using HTTP between the birds but rather a more efficient protocol. Here I've got 18 hops from my office to HN: $ mtr news.ycombinator.com -rc 3 Start: 2022-12-04T09:27:13+0200 HOST: dotan-OptiPlex-7040 Loss% Snt Last Avg Best Wrst StDev 1.|-- _gateway 0.0% 3 1.4 1.9 1.4 2.8 0.8 2.|-- 172.19.19.254 0.0% 3 0.3 0.4 0.3 0.6 0.2 3.|-- 62.128.42.108 0.0% 3 0.8 0.9 0.8 1.0 0.1 4.|-- 31.154.12.149 0.0% 3 5.4 7.5 5.4 11.7 3.6 5.|-- ??? 100.0 3 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 6.|-- ??? 100.0 3 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 7.|-- ??? 100.0 3 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 8.|-- ??? 100.0 3 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 9.|-- 82.102.131.249 0.0% 3 5.8 5.9 5.8 6.0 0.1 10.|-- 82.102.131.251 0.0% 3 12.4 12.0 11.2 12.5 0.7 11.|-- 82.102.131.201 0.0% 3 31.0 71.5 31.0 135.5 56.0 12.|-- ??? 100.0 3 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 13.|-- ??? 100.0 3 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 14.|-- 82.102.129.226 0.0% 3 48.9 49.8 48.9 51.1 1.1 15.|-- et-1-0-23-101.edge1.marse 0.0% 3 79.5 80.0 76.9 83.6 3.4 16.|-- ae0.11.bar1.sandiego1.lev 0.0% 3 220.4 214.7 210.2 220.4 5.2 17.|-- m5-hosting.bar1.sandiego1 33.3% 3 798.8 765.5 732.1 798.8 47.2 18.|-- news.ycombinator.com 0.0% 3 233.2 228.1 220.9 233.2 6.4