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Maybe the carriers’ marketing departments will hand out little 4 bar stickers to put in the upper corners of your phone while they loudly proclaim “full bars ev
by teeray 3y ago
Maybe the carriers’ marketing departments will hand out little 4 bar stickers to put in the upper corners of your phone while they loudly proclaim “full bars everywhere!” Of course, conveniently continuing to ignore latency in the mobile core, which is what increasingly impacts end user quality of service more than “bars.”
- lxgr 3y agoThese satellites are around 500 km up. Round-trip latency is less than 10 ms if you’re somewhat close to a ground station, and if you’re not, odds are you’re not that close to your application server either and would have comparable latency in fiber.
- phildenhoff 3y agoI never before considered that "the edge" may become a constellation of Starlink satellites. Round-trip latency is a lot better if your messages are only going 500km. That said — can you imagine deploying your service to ~5200 satellites? yikes