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You're missing the fact that Starlink doesn't take your traffic to the destination. It takes to a nearby downlink station. Then it goes on those same optic cabl

• dotnet00 3y ago
  It can take your data to the destination via inter-satellite laser links. That's how they offer service over water and near/at the poles, where downlink stations are not in line of sight for the satellites.
  • sidewndr46 3y ago
    "can take your data" is not the same as thing as "takes the shortest path". There is no way that Starlink is using precious inter-satellite capacity when your data can go direct to a downlink station and transit on dirt cheap fiber
    • dotnet00 3y ago
      No one's saying they are, the point was that they're capable of it.