Comment on The plan for nationwide fiber internet might be upended for Starlink
TonyTonyChopper@mander.xyz 2 weeks agoSt*rlink orbits at 500 km so you would need to be like 1200 km by land away from your destination to have a better latency
Comment on The plan for nationwide fiber internet might be upended for Starlink
TonyTonyChopper@mander.xyz 2 weeks agoSt*rlink orbits at 500 km so you would need to be like 1200 km by land away from your destination to have a better latency
SkaveRat@discuss.tchncs.de 2 weeks ago
Hard to calculate exactly.
Latency is lower through the atmosphere than in glass (I thought that air was worse, but turns out it’s not. Makes sense. Glass is solid after all)
So it could be even closer than that. But there’s also the problem of the SL base station having to do the last bit of the route through fiber to the destination again. Do it also depends on where the base station is located in regards to the destination
NotMyOldRedditName@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Starlink can be more direct as well. The further fiber goes the less direct it is.