Comment on Starlink's Laser System is Beaming 42 Petabytes of Data Per Day
five82@lemmy.world 9 months ago
I’m on a cruise ship trying Starlink for the first time and it’s impressive. I haven’t tried anything yet that requires low latency like gaming but websites and video streaming are all fast and responsive.
linearchaos@lemmy.world 9 months ago
It’s less than 50 milliseconds generally. Low earth orbit and all. I don’t know that I want to join an FPS tournament on it, but there are worse landlines in existence
cmnybo@discuss.tchncs.de 9 months ago
That’s when there’s a ground station in view of the Starlink satellite. The laser links add latency, but it’s still a hell of a lot faster than GEO satellites.