Yes, I've seen that email. You'll note that they very carefully avoid mentioning that the latency targets are best case minimum latencies, not average latency or even latency upper and lower limits.
Jared From: "Darin Steffl" <darin.ste...@mnwifi.com> To: "AnimalFarm Microwave Users Group" <af@af.afmug.com> Subject: Re: [AFMUG] Starlink latency highly variable - up to 120 ms Here's the email Starlink sent out a week ago, attached. 16 to 19ms latency target in summer of 2021 On Tue, Nov 3, 2020 at 9:57 AM <fiber...@mail.com[mailto:fiber...@mail.com]> wrote:From: "Bill Prince" <part15...@gmail.com[mailto:part15...@gmail.com]> To: af@af.afmug.com[mailto:af@af.afmug.com] Subject: Re: [AFMUG] Starlink latency highly variable - up to 120 ms > > I call that BS. It means they can route the traffic to the nearest end > point. I think it will make a massive difference. You can call BS all day long til you are blue in the face, it won't change facts. The minimum end user latency is dominated by the RF space segment which is currently averaging 40 ms. There are promises about lowering this, but nobody has ever claimed any numbers lower than 20 ms. It means jack all to the end user if Starlink uses a space laser to do one or two hops when they have to pay a 20-40 ms penalty to go up and down. Jared -- AF mailing list AF@af.afmug.com[mailto:AF@af.afmug.com] http://af.afmug.com/mailman/listinfo/af_af.afmug.com -- Darin Steffl Minnesota WiFi www.mnwifi.com[http://www.mnwifi.com/] 507-634-WiFi Like us on Facebook[http://www.facebook.com/minnesotawifi]-- AF mailing list AF@af.afmug.com http://af.afmug.com/mailman/listinfo/af_af.afmug.com[http://af.afmug.com/mailman/listinfo/af_af.afmug.com] -- AF mailing list AF@af.afmug.com http://af.afmug.com/mailman/listinfo/af_af.afmug.com
