• SkaveRat@discuss.tchncs.de
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    2 days ago

    Hard to calculate exactly.

    Latency is lower through the atmosphere than in glass (I thought that air was worse, but turns out it’s not. Makes sense. Glass is solid after all)

    So it could be even closer than that. But there’s also the problem of the SL base station having to do the last bit of the route through fiber to the destination again. Do it also depends on where the base station is located in regards to the destination

    • NotMyOldRedditName@lemmy.world
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      2 days ago

      Starlink can be more direct as well. The further fiber goes the less direct it is. By the time we’re talking between continents that builds up a lot.