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 toast0 on Friday August 06, 2021 @01:27PM (#28090299)

Depends on where you live and where you measure to. Generally, it's fair to measure to the first IP hop, if you live far from any major internet exchange, that's going to add to your latency regardless.

I've seen fast-mode DSL around 7ms, interleaved DSL around 20 ms, cable usually 5-10 ms, but highly variable. ATT GPON was 5 ms which I thought was pretty high, although fiber should really be sub 1 ms.

I've seen LTE between 10 and 60 ms (or worse, when it's congested), older technologies are usually quite a bit more.

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Re:Starlink is better than satellite and DSL but not as fast... by jjeaff on Wednesday August 11, 2021 @04:00PM (#28146982)

How are you measuring? Everyone is saying they get such low latency, I just ran a ping to 8.8.8.8 and get the following on my colo server in a Las Vegas data center:

PING 8.8.8.8 (8.8.8.8) 56(84) bytes of data. 64 bytes from 8.8.8.8: icmp_seq=1 ttl=115 time=12.7 ms 64 bytes from 8.8.8.8: icmp_seq=2 ttl=115 time=11.4 ms 64 bytes from 8.8.8.8: icmp_seq=3 ttl=115 time=10.6 ms 64 bytes from 8.8.8.8: icmp_seq=4 ttl=115 time=10.9 ms

I get about the same from my home cable internet connection.

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