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Which is cool I guess, if you live in one of the relatively small number of places in the world where that exists, in which case you wouldn't use Starlink anyway.

Many of Starlink's customers would otherwise be on VSAT, with 600ms+ RTT to geostationary birds.

just invest in local infrastructure instead of throwing money at a nazi

There it is, the real reason you’re dunking on Starlink, you don’t like Elon.

It's secondary, the fact is that starlink is objectively 8x worse than what is currently considered the default. And there's no sense dealing with nazis to get something 8x worse.

> currently considered the default

By whom?

So? 25ms hardly sucks

it's more than 8x slower? sure it would have been fine >10 years ago

It’s still perfectly fine.

25ms is fine for the vast majority of people except maybe hardcore gamers.

3ms at the speed of light is 500 miles. Much of what your accessing will be physically further than that anyway.

Reminds me of: 4mb of memory is more than you will ever need!!!

Also, ever heard of CDNs?