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Re:Beta users of Starlink get downloads of 11 to 60 Mbps by xienze on Friday August 14, 2020 @05:14PM (#24163363)
Bandwidth is great and all, but satellite latency is a killer. Been there, done that.
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Re:Beta users of Starlink get downloads of 11 to 60 Mbps by hackstack on Friday August 14, 2020 @05:30PM (#24163533)
This is mentioned on literally every Starlink thread I read, and the response is always that unlike previous satellite internet offerings, Starlink operates in low earth orbit, drastically reducing the ping time. Do you have more to add?
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Re:Beta users of Starlink get downloads of 11 to 60 Mbps by yencabulator on Friday August 14, 2020 @05:31PM (#24163542)
This ain't your grandpa's Hughes.

> latencies or ping rates ranging from 31ms to 94ms

That's on par or better than what I can get with either point-to-point wifi to small ISP or LTE.

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Re:Beta users of Starlink get downloads of 11 to 60 Mbps by toast0 on Friday August 14, 2020 @09:18PM (#24165126)
31ms isn't too bad compared to the 20ms I get on bonded vdsl2.
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Re:Beta users of Starlink get downloads of 11 to 60 Mbps by bryanlarsen on Friday August 14, 2020 @07:07PM (#24164317)
Lucky the article includes ping times then.
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