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Re:SpaceX Starlink average speedtest is 42.3Mbps down / 9.7 ... by wasmitnetzen on Thursday August 27, 2020 @08:12AM (#24292852)
There's a lot of active gear introducing delays between those ends. Pinging www.govt.nz, which is about 17000km from me and as close to the antipode as I can find in a quick search, pings at around 300 to 400ms, so only at about 15 to 20% of c.
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Re:SpaceX Starlink average speedtest is 42.3Mbps down / 9.7 ... by dmd on Thursday August 27, 2020 @08:24AM (#24292930)
Huh. My nearest land antipode (from Boston, MA, USA) is Perth, and I get about 150ms ping to there. Regardless, even 400 ms is a far cry from 2000 ms.
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Re:SpaceX Starlink average speedtest is 42.3Mbps down / 9.7 ... by CodesInChaos on Thursday August 27, 2020 @09:06AM (#24293267)
A ping is a round trip, so you have to double the distance.
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