Starlink is better than satellite and DSL but not as fast as fiber or cable

Re:Starlink is better than satellite and DSL but not as fast... by vel0city on Friday August 06, 2021 @01:16PM (#28090160)

AT&T FTTH in Texas. Its 2-3ms from my home to Google's CDNs. 2-3ms to Cloudfront. 4ms to akamai. Its 3ms to my friend's house, 1ms to my work's office. Its 2ms to my colo in town.

40ms is me essentially connecting halfway across the country. A Digital Ocean droplet in SF or NY is ~40ms.

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Re:Starlink is better than satellite and DSL but not as fast... by jjeaff on Wednesday August 11, 2021 @03:55PM (#28146925)

How are you measuring this? Because I just ran a ping from my colo server in a datacenter and am seeing 11-12 ms when I ping google CDN.

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Re:Starlink is better than satellite and DSL but not as fast... by vel0city on Sunday August 22, 2021 @11:24AM (#28266215)

All of this was measured on my residential FTTH internet from a wired desktop just using the Windows ping utility.

11-12ms to a Google CDN from your colo? That's insane to me. Pinging from my colo to Google using the ping utility from iputils for 50 packets gives an average ping of 1.6ms. Akamai pings at 2.1ms.

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Re:Starlink is better than satellite and DSL but not as fast... by jjeaff on Wednesday August 25, 2021 @01:06AM (#28298227)

Ok, so I ran a ping again from my data center server. And for CDN.google.com, I get average of less than 0.2ms ping. But, when pinging www.gstatic.com, that is when I get more like 7-10ms.

I'm not sure what the difference is between the two.

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