• nivenkos@lemmy.world
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    8 months ago

    What about rural farmers’ children who want a good education? What about Cubans who are denied deep-sea cables service by the USA?

    This is incredible technology that can help tens of millions of people.

    “Just be a rich urban American” isn’t a good answer for the rest of the world’s population.

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      8 months ago

      How do slightly higher latencies impact any of that?

      You don’t even notice those unless you play a FPS. Last I checked, pwning b00ns in CS isn’t vital to a good education.

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        8 months ago

        To make it competitive with local Internet, so all services work well. On high latency connections lots of stuff like websockets, etc. will struggle too.

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          8 months ago

          It’s competitive because as you describe, it’s better than all other available forms of Internet access.

          I used web sockets exactly once in an interactive piece of software. It worked perfectly fine with over-the-ocean latencies, which are higher than Starlink.

          It’s a non-problem.

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      8 months ago

      I think Cubans would prefer access to other ressources before low lantecy internet. Because that’s what the subject of this article. Starlink wanting access to very low earth orbit for reduce the signal distance, so the latency.

      You can still have access to internet with a medium latency.

      Then I’m the rest of the world. I live in an area with a density of 100people by km square. And I have fiber. Yes I’m from a west european country. My download is at more than 900mb, my upload the half. And I have a ping of 20ms.