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Re:Starlink is now Accepting General Pre-orders by colordrops on Wednesday February 17, 2021 @11:18PM (#26175716)
I regularly get 12ms latency to google over my DOCSIS3 cable coax connection.
Re:Starlink is now Accepting General Pre-orders by walrus01 on Wednesday February 17, 2021 @11:21PM (#26175749)
This will vary greatly depending on how loaded your particular cablemodem segment is, how the channel bonding is set up, how enthusiastic your neighbors are about downloading things like 65GB torrents of 2160p60 movies. If there is an 8.8.8.8 anycast node somewhere in your city, and you are kinda close to downtown, less than 1.5ms of that could be the fiber path from your ISP to their peering with google and back, and 10.5ms of it or so would be accounted for by the cablemodem part.
Re:Starlink is now Accepting General Pre-orders by shaklee3 on Thursday February 18, 2021 @01:22AM (#26176601)
It will also vary greatly once starlink is loaded. The variation you're seeing is purely due to slant range. Those numbers will increase once the satellites are oversubscribed.
Re:Starlink is now Accepting General Pre-orders by lxgr on Thursday February 18, 2021 @04:54AM (#26177959)
Very true. I'm seeing an average of 100ms to the first hop (and about the same to 8.8.8.8) during the day on mine, with lows of 50-60ms, and the occasional 10 second peaks.

At night it's something like 10ms.

Re:Starlink is now Accepting General Pre-orders by enra on Wednesday February 17, 2021 @11:47PM (#26175946)
I regularly get 25-250ms latency (average is maybe 60ms) to google or 8.8.8.8 over my DOCSIS3 cable coax connection in addition to 2-5% packet loss.

The ISP network and node is oversaturated and they plan to do nothing about it (Cox).

So I'm actually excited if Starlink can provide 20-30ms stable latency, I have an option which is not tied to the regional operators.

Re:Starlink is now Accepting General Pre-orders by dboreham on Thursday February 18, 2021 @07:33AM (#26179067)
Latency or RTT?
Re:Starlink is now Accepting General Pre-orders by alasdair_ on Thursday February 18, 2021 @12:14AM (#26176155)
I just checked mine. I get about the same.

Pinging 8.8.8.8 with 32 bytes of data: Reply from 8.8.8.8: bytes=32 time=12ms TTL=115

Re:Starlink is now Accepting General Pre-orders by sireat on Thursday February 18, 2021 @06:45AM (#26178720)
8.8.8.8 is 13ms , but how does Cloudfare (1.1.1.1) get to 1ms ?

Reply from 1.1.1.1: bytes=32 time<1ms TTL=60

Some sort of local caching going on.

Re:Starlink is now Accepting General Pre-orders by fps_doug on Thursday February 18, 2021 @11:02AM (#26181433)
Whoa, do you live in their data center? ;-)

Even my ISP's next hop is 2.5ms, 8.8.8.8 and 1.1.1.1 are both at 4.7ms.

Re:Starlink is now Accepting General Pre-orders by nly on Thursday February 18, 2021 @01:37AM (#26176693)
Google probably have servers in your ISPs data center
Re:Starlink is now Accepting General Pre-orders by bbarnett on Thursday February 18, 2021 @07:35AM (#26179089)
Yes, this. I know they do with Videotron.