Starlink Internet

[terracore]

Those stats are pretty impressive. The internet is a terrestrial service and Starlink works through gateways on the ground. So your packet of information has to go from here to space, get routed through a network of satellites until it hits one with a good view of a ground station, beam the packet to the ground, distribute it to the terrestrial internet where it collects all the additional latency inherent to the internet, eventually routes it to another ground station, beams it back into space, it goes through the network of satellites and finally back to your router. Not all the packets make it. Error correction built into the internet protocols finds the packets that need to be resent and the whole thing repeats itself and somehow you can see Kirk beaming onto a planet in 4k streaming watching Star Trek.

I just tested my fiber connection. 10ms latency but that is pinging a server in HNL. When I specify a server in CA it's 50ms.