Are you claiming the speed of light in vacuum is fake news now?
Jared > From: "Bill Prince" <part15...@gmail.com> > To: af@af.afmug.com > Subject: Re: [AFMUG] Starlink latency highly variable - up to 120 ms > > We won't have "facts" for at least a year. In the mean time everyone is > blowing smoke. > > > bp > <part15sbs{at}gmail{dot}com> > > On 11/3/2020 7:57 AM, fiber...@mail.com wrote: > > From: "Bill Prince" <part15...@gmail.com> > > To: 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 > 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