Tony Bark@pawb.social to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 1 day agoSpaceX says states should dump fiber plans, give all grant money to Starlinkarstechnica.comexternal-linkmessage-square245fedilinkarrow-up1645arrow-down114
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minus-squareubergeek@lemmy.todaylinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·13 hours agoSo, not 4x, but 2x. BTW, did you know HughesNet is cheaper, and works just as well. Or, it will work just as well once Starlink reaches the saturation HughesNet faces.
minus-squareHiTekRedNek@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·edit-211 hours agoPhysics says otherwise. Geostationary orbit, which is where hughesnet satellites are, is approximately 22 THOUSAND miles away. That’s a round trip of 44 thousand miles. That’s a ping time of 236ms just for the satellite connection, before any other connections are added in. That’s worse than my dialup latency was in the 90s Meanwhile, my Starlink ping averages less than 40ms, because these satellites are MUCH MUCH closer.
minus-squareubergeek@lemmy.todaylinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·11 hours agoWonder how your starlink will work once it reaches it’s peak market saturation?
minus-squareHiTekRedNek@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·edit-210 hours agoIt’s cute that you’re worried about me. But it’s still better than whatever else is currently available at my house. And it will always be better than anything using geostationary orbit.
So, not 4x, but 2x.
BTW, did you know HughesNet is cheaper, and works just as well. Or, it will work just as well once Starlink reaches the saturation HughesNet faces.
Physics says otherwise.
Geostationary orbit, which is where hughesnet satellites are, is approximately 22 THOUSAND miles away.
That’s a round trip of 44 thousand miles.
That’s a ping time of 236ms just for the satellite connection, before any other connections are added in.
That’s worse than my dialup latency was in the 90s
Meanwhile, my Starlink ping averages less than 40ms, because these satellites are MUCH MUCH closer.
Wonder how your starlink will work once it reaches it’s peak market saturation?
It’s cute that you’re worried about me. But it’s still better than whatever else is currently available at my house. And it will always be better than anything using geostationary orbit.