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Re:SpaceX Starlink has some hiccups as expected, but users a... by futevolei on Sunday November 15, 2020 @09:29PM (#25107300)
I misread a different article which said spacex originally planned to have these satellites orbit around 800mi and I mistook that as normal altitude.
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Re:SpaceX Starlink has some hiccups as expected, but users a... by Dylan16807 on Wednesday November 18, 2020 @03:36AM (#25134432)
The analysis is basically the same for 800 miles. That's 5 milliseconds per leg. Geostationary is 22000 miles.

Though if you got 25%... did you calculate 115 milliseconds of speedup? That's the speedup for one leg. A ping to a server has to travel that distance four times.

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