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Yes, the satellites are moving, so the quality of service at any time varies depending on where the satellites are at that time.
by diebeforei485 4y ago
Yes, the satellites are moving, so the quality of service at any time varies depending on where the satellites are at that time.
- yencabulator 4y agoThey move quickly enough that your variation would be on the time scale of minutes, not over a day. (Earlier in the beta, I had a 20 ms hiccup every few minutes, during the hand-off to next satellite. I'm guessing the IP routing wasn't in sync with the satellite switch.)
- diebeforei485 4y agoCorrect, and it's when users feel those hiccups that they're going to speedtest.net - so the results are not representative. Terrestrial broadband doesn't have hiccups as frequently, so the speedtest.net results would have a better signal to noise ratio for terrestrial ISP's vs for Starlink.