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Bandwidth is great and all, but satellite latency is a killer. Been there, done that.


This is mentioned on literally every Starlink thread I read, and the response is always that unlike previous satellite internet offerings, Starlink operates in low earth orbit, drastically reducing the ping time. Do you have more to add?


This ain't your grandpa's Hughes.

> latencies or ping rates ranging from 31ms to 94ms

That's on par or better than what I can get with either point-to-point wifi to small ISP or LTE.


31ms isn't too bad compared to the 20ms I get on bonded vdsl2.


Lucky the article includes ping times then.




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