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fooker | karma 3408 | avg karma 1.71 · 2023-08-24 01:21:49

Starlink latency is too high if your server is nearby.

If it’s on the other side of the earth it beats everything.

dzhiurgis | karma 3122 | avg karma 0.65 · 2023-08-24 03:21:19

Do they actually route all the way across planet using laser interlinks? Are there any tests by someone?

raphaelj | karma 2092 | avg karma 5.23 · 2023-08-24 04:24:50

My guess is that they do not.

Routing these packets around the planet would be a huge waste of their limited electrical and transmission resources.

dzhiurgis | karma 3122 | avg karma 0.65 · 2023-08-24 06:29:51

Premium plans would fix that...

panick21_ | karma 6073 | avg karma 1.48 · 2023-08-24 05:57:37

They have both sats with and without lasers. Starlink with lasers are still being rolled out.

So it will depend very much from where to where. The certaintly can go direct.

It would be interesting to know their internal routing logic but I don't think we know.