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Re:SpaceX Starlink is now its own ASN and present at the Sea... by gpm on Wednesday June 03, 2020 @10:37PM (#23411728)
100km = 3 light-ms - which should be noticeable in the relative pings, no?
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Re:SpaceX Starlink is now its own ASN and present at the Sea... by walrus01 on Wednesday June 03, 2020 @10:39PM (#23411734)
Yes, I mean it can be obvious when ISPs have proper consistent reverse DNS with hostnames and POP designations. You might see a router in Sacramento that is a neighbor of something in Portland. Obviously there's a lot of stuff in between there but it's all abstracted away at the purely layer-3 IP network level.
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Re:SpaceX Starlink is now its own ASN and present at the Sea... by chupasaurus on Thursday June 04, 2020 @01:00AM (#23412610)
You've missed one zero, 1 light-ms = 300km.
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Re:SpaceX Starlink is now its own ASN and present at the Sea... by tlamponi on Thursday June 04, 2020 @10:29AM (#23416976)
In vacuum, yes, in medium it's more like 200 km.
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