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

• FauxLiving@lemmy.world ⁨14⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  The point is, unless you’re playing some hyper competitive game where a 30ms difference in reaction time is noticeable (this is less than 1 frame in a fighting game, for example) Starlink works perfectly well. Lower numbers are better, but for games you only need to compare that number to human reaction times (150-200ms) to see that both are small values less than the reaction time of any person.

  Previous satellite Internet using satellites in geosynchronous orbit had 1500ms latency, for comparison.

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  • ubergeek@lemmy.today ⁨13⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Previous satellite Internet using satellites in geosynchronous orbit had 1500ms latency, for comparison.

    Yes, and are far more stable, not hyped, and are already at pretty much peak congestion. Starlink will get progressively worse, the more people use it. Right now, it’s over provisioned.

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    • FauxLiving@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Yes, and are far more stable, not hyped, and are already at pretty much peak congestion. Starlink will get progressively worse, the more people use it. Right now, it’s over provisioned.

      They were not more stable. Any occlusion, including thick clouds, would degrade the signal to being unusable. I used Hughsnet for years, then swapped to cellular (100ms+ latency) and finally to Starlink. Starlink is a pretty solid 100Mb/s, with low jitter, packet loss and latency.

      Ever try a voice call with 30ms of latency?

      Yeah, I use voice chat every day, it’s not noticeable.

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