California’s strict net neutrality bill is close to final passage

Re:California’s strict net neutrality bill is close to final... by paulsutter on Monday August 27, 2018 @04:37PM (#17854307)

Steerable phased-array base station antennas make Elon’s LEO network possible. Latency is all about the speed of light. Existng networks use geosynchronous orbit, because existung base stations have fixed aim. Elon’s LEO satellites will be as low as 300km versus the 35,000km to geosynchronous orbit.

Latency may actually be better than fiber for long haul access, because routing will take place between satellites. The speed of light in vacuum is about 50% faster than the speed of light in a fiber (which of course we use terrestrially)

https://bigthink.com/robby-berman/elon-musk-quietly-plans-to...

EDIT: More details here on p2p, encryption, etc

http://www.alphr.com/space/1008632/Elon-Musk-SpaceX-Starlink...

https://www.reddit.com/r/technology/comments/807fns/elon_mus...

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Re:California’s strict net neutrality bill is close to final... by LinuxBender on Monday August 27, 2018 @04:39PM (#17854337)

I would love to see how they handle the multiplexing and routing of so many high speed links by many people, while only using the power that a satellite can maintain.

I am very much looking forward to this. This would solve several problems for me.

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