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To: Red Badger

Regular satellite Internet is notorious for high latency. It’s pretty much impossible to have multiplayer gaming over such a connection. The signal is going to a satellite in geosynchronous orbit more than 20,000 miles away, one way. That eats into Internet speed bigtime.


21 posted on 01/15/2024 12:11:15 PM PST by Ciaphas Cain (Dear Claire Wolfe: Is it still "too early"?)
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To: Ciaphas Cain

Starlink satellites are in Low Earth Orbit.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Starlink


22 posted on 01/15/2024 12:13:06 PM PST by Red Badger (Homeless veterans camp in the streets while illegal aliens are put up in hotels.....................)
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To: Ciaphas Cain

Internet service was my biggest concern moving from the city to the country, but we’ve been so happy with Starlink. We can be on the computer, streaming on Roku, and gaming at the same time with no issues whatsoever, even during big rainstorms.


24 posted on 01/15/2024 12:19:29 PM PST by TauntedTiger (If voting mattered, they wouldn't let us do it. Mark Twain)
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To: Ciaphas Cain

In Musk’s speech to employees he said, as I recall, the speed of light eats 8 milliseconds, but he thinks he can get latency down to 10ms, just 2 ms slower than the speed of light - he does say that gamers will be thrilled.


32 posted on 01/15/2024 1:07:05 PM PST by PIF (They came for me and mine ... now its your turn)
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