I’ve read posts / other articles about how Elon is planning to allow for low latency / gaming on StarLink. I understand how they will increase bandwidth – but isn’t latency limited by speed of light?
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The latency to a satellite above your head at starlink altitude is just shy of 2 milliseconds. This means that connecting to a nearby server this way will take about 6 milliseconds.
Any normal connection delay increases by about 4 MS – maybe more like 8 if the satellites are off to the side somewhere. That’s very small for gaming.
The real delay is probably going to be in modem/routing time, but I’ll bet that this is something old Elon’s engineers can work around given the time and money to do so.
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