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Don't make blanket statements without looking at the actual numbers first. The satellites will be in LEO. An added 5ms (or say 50ms with slack for demodulation,

• ColinWright 12y ago
  Their target market is unlikely to stay still, and once people have some internet access they will start to ask for more. Worse, suppliers will take it for granted that they have internet access, require that they use it, remove other methods of accessing information, and still ignore the question of latency. See also my comment[0] about trade-offs between LEO and MEO, number of satellites versus number of hops, and other issues. I am aware of (some of) the issues, and it concerns me that many people seem to be less so and just assume that all will be well. [0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9328145 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9328145