Comment on SpaceX says states should dump fiber plans, give all grant money to Starlink

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Anivia@feddit.org ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

Is it because latency does not scale in that way?

Yes, your understanding is fundamentally flawed. Starlink add a fixed latency on top, if you ping to a server was 2ms with fiber and 52ms with starlink, then your ping to a server that would be 100ms with fiber would be 150ms with starlink

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