Tony Bark@pawb.social to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 22 hours agoSpaceX says states should dump fiber plans, give all grant money to Starlinkarstechnica.comexternal-linkmessage-square223fedilinkarrow-up1566arrow-down115
arrow-up1551arrow-down1external-linkSpaceX says states should dump fiber plans, give all grant money to Starlinkarstechnica.comTony Bark@pawb.social to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 22 hours agomessage-square223fedilink
minus-squareubergeek@lemmy.todaylinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·3 hours agoSo, not 4x, but 2x. BTW, did you know HughesNet is cheaper, and works just as well. Or, it will work just as well once Starlink reaches the saturation HughesNet faces.
minus-squareHiTekRedNek@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·edit-21 hour agoPhysics says otherwise. Geostationary orbit, which is where hughesnet satellites are, is approximately 22 THOUSAND miles away. That’s a round trip of 44 thousand miles. That’s a ping time of 236ms just for the satellite connection, before any other connections are added in. That’s worse than my dialup latency was in the 90s Meanwhile, my Starlink ping averages less than 40ms, because these satellites are MUCH MUCH closer.
minus-squareubergeek@lemmy.todaylinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·49 minutes agoWonder how your starlink will work once it reaches it’s peak market saturation?
So, not 4x, but 2x.
BTW, did you know HughesNet is cheaper, and works just as well. Or, it will work just as well once Starlink reaches the saturation HughesNet faces.
Physics says otherwise.
Geostationary orbit, which is where hughesnet satellites are, is approximately 22 THOUSAND miles away.
That’s a round trip of 44 thousand miles.
That’s a ping time of 236ms just for the satellite connection, before any other connections are added in.
That’s worse than my dialup latency was in the 90s
Meanwhile, my Starlink ping averages less than 40ms, because these satellites are MUCH MUCH closer.
Wonder how your starlink will work once it reaches it’s peak market saturation?