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Re:Starlink WiFi Router FCC Approved by elif on Wednesday July 15, 2020 @01:37AM (#23841725)
Why isn't space the biggest part of latency? can't they put a satellite link directly in google?
Re:Starlink WiFi Router FCC Approved by shaklee3 on Wednesday July 15, 2020 @09:20AM (#23844795)
They have no cross-links, so up and down to space is going to happen multiple times in many cases. Second, they will not have data centers or ixps right where Google's ingress is, so it has to traverse fiber for quite a while. Someone gave some real numbers on the last SpaceX thread, but I believe that part alone will be 20-30ms added.
Re:Starlink WiFi Router FCC Approved by ballenf on Wednesday July 15, 2020 @10:34AM (#23845731)
So how long until Google puts a datacenter in space?
Re:Starlink WiFi Router FCC Approved by eximius on Friday July 17, 2020 @07:23PM (#23877202)
Seeing as heat dissipation is a hard problem in space, probably never.
Re:Starlink WiFi Router FCC Approved by aftbit on Wednesday July 15, 2020 @03:54PM (#23850776)
They do have cross-links though?
Re:Starlink WiFi Router FCC Approved by shaklee3 on Wednesday July 15, 2020 @04:07PM (#23850956)
They do not have cross-links. They were in the original public announcements, but none of the current satellites have them, nor have they announced when they would be launching some that do. It's likely years away.
Re:Starlink WiFi Router FCC Approved by elif on Wednesday July 15, 2020 @10:05PM (#23854955)
> Early satellites are launched without laser links, in October 2019 SpaceX expected satellites with these links to be ready by the end of 2020.

from wikipedia

Re:Starlink WiFi Router FCC Approved by shaklee3 on Wednesday July 15, 2020 @10:10PM (#23854982)
That's a claim musk made, but they already have over 500 launched without them. They should have 1000 by year-end, so it's unlikely they'll be able to use them for a couple of years.