[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.

[6ppc]

These are going to be approx 1100 miles up. Plan is to orbit 1000s of them. They are talking about gigabit speeds. Looks interesting.

[Ozark Tom]

Laser optical links connect satellite-to-satellite for exchange traffic. RF links connect traffic to ground transceiver stations.

How many teleoperator would the projected network support if each satellite has 17 to 23 Gigabit aggregate down-link capability???