The German tech company KLEO Connect aims to establish its own network of satellites in low Earth orbit that can provide internet to remote locations, hoping to rival Starlink.

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    1 year ago

    only a few dozen milliseconds slower

    Have you ever been on geostationary satellite internet? Pings of 1,000 - 2,000 are common.

    The minimum additional ping is 240ms purely due to the time it takes light to move 13,816 km and back. That is ping added on top of all the standard network latencies. It’s fundamentally a high-latency system.