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Starlink's Laser System is Beaming 42 Petabytes of Data Per Day
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this post was submitted on 02 Feb 2024
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I’m on a cruise ship trying Starlink for the first time and it’s impressive. I haven’t tried anything yet that requires low latency like gaming but websites and video streaming are all fast and responsive.
It's less than 50 milliseconds generally. Low earth orbit and all. I don't know that I want to join an FPS tournament on it, but there are worse landlines in existence
That's when there's a ground station in view of the Starlink satellite. The laser links add latency, but it's still a hell of a lot faster than GEO satellites.