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The plan for nationwide fiber internet might be upended for Starlink (www.theverge.com)

submitted 4 weeks ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 weeks ago* (last edited 4 weeks ago) (1 children)

St*rlink orbits at 500 km so you would need to be like 1800 km by land away from your destination to have a better latency. At that point your latency will be terrible anyway

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 weeks ago (1 children)

Hard to calculate exactly.

Latency is lower through the atmosphere than in glass (I thought that air was worse, but turns out it's not. Makes sense. Glass is solid after all)

So it could be even closer than that. But there's also the problem of the SL base station having to do the last bit of the route through fiber to the destination again. Do it also depends on where the base station is located in regards to the destination

[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 weeks ago* (last edited 4 weeks ago)

Starlink can be more direct as well. The further fiber goes the less direct it is. By the time we're talking between continents that builds up a lot.