Starlink has its own networking issues thanks to a lot of latency jitter and 0.5% or more packet loss. See the discussion from last month: https://news.ycombina

Starlink has its own networking issues thanks to a lot of latency jitter and 0.5% or more packet loss. See the discussion from last month: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40384959 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40384959 The biggest issue for Starlink at the poles is, as you say, very sparse coverage. Also I suspect Starlink has to usually relay polar packets between satellites, not just a simple bent pipe relaying to a ground station.