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To: Born to Conserve

Starlink has a lightspeed delay to orbit and back. Hope you like lag.


13 posted on 02/11/2020 7:51:31 AM PST by Spktyr (Overwhelmingly superior firepower and the willingness to use it is the only proven peace solution.)
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To: Spktyr

“ Hope you like lag.”

Up-down lag to high earth orbit is about 0.5 sec total, plus the lag from point-to-point and that caused by the routing equipment, so a little over 1sec total. That’s good enough for voice and video, although you’d be dead soon in Halo.


27 posted on 02/11/2020 9:44:28 AM PST by VanShuyten ("...that all the donkeys were dead. I know nothing as to the fate of the less valuable animals.")
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To: Spktyr
Starlink has a lightspeed delay to orbit and back. Hope you like lag.

Offset by much lower orbits and higher peer-to-peer density than typical communications satellites. It's an interesting concept. I can't wait to see how it performs in the real-world.

30 posted on 02/11/2020 11:40:44 AM PST by Future Snake Eater (Plans are worthless, but planning is everything. - Dwight Eisenhower, 1957)
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