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Re:SpaceX Starlink is now its own ASN and present at the Sea... by imtringued on Thursday June 04, 2020 @04:02AM (#23413931)
Those numbers seem awfully high. I've just ran a speedtest between Germany and California and got 170ms total latency. Back when rabb.it [0] was alive I could even get reaction scores of 450ms compared to 230ms when running the test on my computer. This is quite impressive when you consider that this means video encoding and decoding must happen in less than 50ms. Conventional video encoding is usually slower than real time.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rabb.it (Californian startup) [1] https://humanbenchmark.com/tests/reactiontime

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Re:SpaceX Starlink is now its own ASN and present at the Sea... by knorker on Thursday June 04, 2020 @04:08AM (#23413968)
Germany to california for you: 170ms. Switzerland to california for that other guy/gal: 160ms

So… awfully high how?

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Re:SpaceX Starlink is now its own ASN and present at the Sea... by throwaway9d0291 on Thursday June 04, 2020 @05:44AM (#23414553)
My latency numbers were cumulative, which is what I meant by "total". The total round trip time to Melbourne is 320ms.
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