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Re:SpaceX Gets FCC Approval to Sell Wireless High-Speed Home... by vl on Monday April 29, 2019 @10:03PM (#19784484)
Another thing is jitter. By design flying satellites are going to create jitter, and even with good latency, it can be bad for stable video streaming, video calls, etc.
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Re:SpaceX Gets FCC Approval to Sell Wireless High-Speed Home... by londons_explore on Tuesday April 30, 2019 @02:56AM (#19785708)
The jitter will be unlike regular jitter though.

The moving satellites will lead to the latency of all packets being the same, but vary over many minutes.

The bad jitter is the stuff that varies on a packet to packet basis.

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