Comment on The plan for nationwide fiber internet might be upended for Starlink
SkaveRat@discuss.tchncs.de 6 days agoHard 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 6 days ago
Starlink can be more direct as well. The further fiber goes the less direct it is.