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shaklee3
on April 17, 2019
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SpaceX’s Starlink Constellation construction begin...
There are existing high speed satellite services.
jagger27
on April 17, 2019
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Latency matters. LEO gives us that.
shaklee3
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It does for some things, and not for others. Streaming and web browsing hardly have a difference.
s_y_n_t_a_x
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The caps, bandwidth, and latency are all awful for current solutions.
shaklee3
on April 18, 2019
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They will be the same for SpaceX. What makes you think otherwise? Their constellation will not start out anywhere near the max capacity they've stated.
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