It is the ~23,000mi orbit geostationary birds that kill latency. When a ping to a terrestrial server has to travel >90,000mi, the latency will never be better than half a second. Musk wants to do a large constellation of low orbit birds.
On Fri, Aug 3, 2018 at 10:18 AM Seth Mattinen <se...@rollernet.us> wrote: > On 8/3/18 8:03 AM, Bill Prince wrote: > > Latency still sucks. 700-800 ms if there is no congestion. Multi-second > > latency if there is congestion. > > > > > Time for some quantum entanglement. > > -- > AF mailing list > AF@af.afmug.com > http://af.afmug.com/mailman/listinfo/af_af.afmug.com >
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