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Starlink at 20-50 ms ? I would never have imagined a roundtrip to orbit that fast... My last experience with satellites were before generalized intercontinental
by liotier 3y ago
Starlink at 20-50 ms ? I would never have imagined a roundtrip to orbit that fast... My last experience with satellites were before generalized intercontinental fiber and those jumps were above one second !
- hnav 3y agoStarlink satellites are in LEO, they're much closer than viasat/hughesnet.
- InternetSec 3y agoSome recent starlink latency numbers (and a methodology to measure starlink latency without needing any specialized hardware) https://arxiv.org/abs/2306.07469 https://arxiv.org/abs/2306.07469
- mnw21cam 3y agoThat's partially the difference between geostationary orbit (35,786km away) and low Earth orbit (1,100km away). Just that extra distance means that the radio waves take an extra 230ms to get to the Vialink satellite and back. The time of flight to a Starlink satellite and back is very small in comparison.