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Re:SpaceX Starlink is now its own ASN and present at the Sea... by cryptonector on Thursday June 04, 2020 @01:16AM (#23412741)
> The way to get almost c on earth is via direct microwave links.

But line of sight. Short-haul.

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Re:SpaceX Starlink is now its own ASN and present at the Sea... by davedx on Thursday June 04, 2020 @02:25AM (#23413231)
You'd be surprised how far HFT companies run their microwave link networks to get better latencies :)

https://sniperinmahwah.wordpress.com/2014/09/22/hft-in-my-ba...

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Re:SpaceX Starlink is now its own ASN and present at the Sea... by ed_blackburn on Thursday June 04, 2020 @07:08AM (#23415050)
From one space elevator to the next. Yeah?
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Re:SpaceX Starlink is now its own ASN and present at the Sea... by redis_mlc on Thursday June 04, 2020 @10:03PM (#23424275)
FYI: both Canada and the US have had transcontinental RF links. The repeaters slow down the transmission by about 30%.

However those were fairly low-bandwidth.

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