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it will never be better than fiber for the simple fact that’s it’s less reliable. The “uptime” of a fiber connection to the home will most likely be higher than
by lurking_swe 2y ago
it will never be better than fiber for the simple fact that’s it’s less reliable. The “uptime” of a fiber connection to the home will most likely be higher than a fiber-like connection from a satellite. And you’ll have better “ping”.
Fiber doesn’t care about cloudy days, typical storms, etc.
Starlink is of course superior when there’s a massive natural disaster, or major power loss to your region. Or if you’re in a rural area with zero other good options.
- udosan 2y agoI‘ve had Starlink for over 2 years, not had a single perceptible minute of outage including in thunderstorms. Might have been slower than usual but not enough to notice. I switched because fibre in our rural area was way less reliable.
- lurking_swe 2y agothat’s shocking to me actually. Was the ISP just bad? Wow. I guess that challenges my perspective. The ping point still stands. May or not be noticeable depending on how you use the internet.
- udosan 2y agoI was very surprised myself. Ping is <30ms to google.com right now so fine with me.
- crowcroft 2y agoIf web servers were deployed to space, and everyone was connecting through satellites would there be any upside for ping? Sure New York to Ohio is always going to be fastest over fibre, but what about New Zealand to London? Not sure how much that matters though and the speed of light is a pretty hard limit to what's possible.
- lurking_swe 2y agoit mostly matters for video conferencing and gaming. i think everything else can more or less buffer no problem. :)