Comment by lupusreal
1 year ago
> "We actually serve over lasers all of our users on Starlink at a given time in like a two-hour window"
I can't figure out what this sentence means.
1 year ago
> "We actually serve over lasers all of our users on Starlink at a given time in like a two-hour window"
I can't figure out what this sentence means.
That any SpaceX user who has a connection established for >2h will have their data sent not via the classic path "ground - satellite - ground" at least once during the connection, but via "ground - satellite 1 - satellite 2 - ground".
I think it means pretty much all Starlink users have at least some data go over laser links every two hours. Which is a bit of surprise to me, if true. I have a year or so of fine-grained latency detail taken with IRTT on a Starlink connection, I should sit down and see if I can see times I'm using a satellite. Latency is highly variable in Starlink though so it's pretty noisy data.
Have you posted that data anywhere? I'm currently on a 10mbps DSL connection and considering StarLink, but have so far been scared away by the cost and concerns about latency, so I'm always on the lookout for real world data.
My pings roughly 60-80 no matter if I’m going to a friends server down the road or across the world. Before starlink, my rural internet would be lucky to get below 120. For what that’s worth.
Hey, I’m very curious if you’ve seen any improvement in latency over the past month.
not in the last month but I had a major improvement 11 months ago. still not clear what they did, but best guess is shifting load.