Yep just tested this morning, 33ms to my next hop on the network. ~15M/800k ADSL2 in Ohio.
I think folks in regions of Ohio will provide an interesting test bed as we’re in fringe coverage of 4-5 of the total set of planned ground stations.
(Speaking of ground station, would be interesting if we could talk to starlink over AWS’s ground relay service.)
fast.com reports 10ms unloaded, 200ms loaded latency for me with comcast.
If starlink hires some people that understand buffer bloat, the physics are already good enough for them to do better than our local oligarchs.
Absolutely, huge improvement, i'm just looking forward to the times when actual intercontinental latencies are LOWER than typical terrestrial connections.
Most DOCSIS 3 cable internet connections I've tested are under 10 ms round trip to the gateway. With consumer fiber, it's usually under 5 ms. These are far better than anything SpaceX will do.
PC gamers will want wired internet. Everyone else could probably do with deal with 80 ms without even noticing, so SpaceX will be very successful as long as it's affordable and reliable.
There are a lot of terrestrial wireline last mile access technologies that already introduce 15-25ms latency on the last mile segment. Such as ADSL2+ on old POTS copper wiring or a heavily loaded docsis3 cable network. That is just from the home modem to the neighborhood's closest network node.