[Noumenon]

One word: latency.

[Ciaphas Cain]

I had satellite-based Internet for a number of years because of my remote location. Pretty reliable except during heavy rain. But there was a data cap. Go over it per month and you get throttled down hard until the next billing period. Forget Netflix then.

And then there is latency.

Getting data from a satellite 30,000 miles away and then uplinking it back makes for horrid response times. Banish the thought of online gaming from your thoughts!

This new scheme of low-altitude satellites comes across as much more data, much faster. I imagine the difference of latency compared to standard ground-based fiber optics and wi-fi will be extremely small. Maybe too small for the average person to detect at all.