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Adeldor t1_iubphbm wrote

Reply to comment by wbruce098 in Amazon may have to turn to SpaceX for help launching its Starlink rival service by Soupjoe5

> But the satellites also have greater latency (about 500ms to LEO, IIRC, due to limits on the speed of light)

LEO (Starlink) latencies are more like 50 ms. Geostationary satellites are the ones feeling the light-speed-limit with 500 ms ping times.

Interestingly, over long distances, Starlink is potentially faster than fiber, as the speed of light through a vacuum is near c, but through fiber is 0.7c at best.

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wbruce098 t1_iucohoz wrote

Oh thanks for that latency correction! That makes a huge difference.

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