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Re:SpaceX’s Starlink Constellation construction begins by jagger27 on Wednesday April 17, 2019 @01:41AM (#19680025)
Latency matters. LEO gives us that.
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Re:SpaceX’s Starlink Constellation construction begins by shaklee3 on Wednesday April 17, 2019 @09:13AM (#19682207)
It does for some things, and not for others. Streaming and web browsing hardly have a difference.
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Re:SpaceX’s Starlink Constellation construction begins by s_y_n_t_a_x on Wednesday April 17, 2019 @11:05AM (#19683177)
The caps, bandwidth, and latency are all awful for current solutions.
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Re:SpaceX’s Starlink Constellation construction begins by shaklee3 on Wednesday April 17, 2019 @11:54PM (#19688591)
They will be the same for SpaceX. What makes you think otherwise? Their constellation will not start out anywhere near the max capacity they've stated.
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