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Re:SpaceX Gets FCC Approval to Sell Wireless High-Speed Home... by dragonwriter on Monday April 29, 2019 @08:43PM (#19784068)
30ms would be you and the game server both on Starlink, on the same satellite. Otherwise, you have to add that to the latency between the ground station and the target server.
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Re:SpaceX Gets FCC Approval to Sell Wireless High-Speed Home... by vel0city on Tuesday April 30, 2019 @12:14AM (#19785118)
IIRC, the plan with Starlink is to have many stations that are supposedly easy to operate in many large-ish datacenters in major areas as opposed to systems like Iridium which have few, complex downlink stations in comparison.
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