Comment by diggan

> (Meanwhile, me on Earth, has link quality issues due to a speck of dust on a fiber connector)

It's incredible really. I remember when I was a kid living with my mom on an island, we got broadband relatively late (compared to the rest of the country), as the island required antennas for getting mainland and the island linked, instead of cables. I think it was set up that way because of costs or something, remember it being expensive...

Regardless, the antennas were setup and we finally got broadband, but every time it got a bit windy and/or rainy, the links started to have huge issues, especially if the lake got lots of waves, then the connection simply disappeared.

And now it seems almost like magic to me how the same setup is literally done but way above our heads, in a really hostile environment like space.