Re:Beta users of Starlink get downloads of 11 to 60 Mbps
by MPSimmons on Saturday August 15, 2020 @01:51AM
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You keep mentioning this, and I can't come up with any announcement that it would be under 20ms, just quotes from Elon saying the target was under 20ms. Is there a press release you're aware of with that quote?
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Re:Beta users of Starlink get downloads of 11 to 60 Mbps
by shaklee3 on Saturday August 15, 2020 @09:18AM
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> Musk stated that Starlink's 20ms latency is designed to run "real-time, competitive video games." He also stated that Version 2, at a lower altitude, "could be as lows 8ms latency."
https://www.shacknews.com/article/118663/spacex-starlink-20m...
Version 2 is not at a lower altitude. In fact, most of the latency incurred is not from altitude at all. They are moving several hundred kilometers from their highest to lowest orbit, and if you do that math that's not accounting for much of the 20ms.