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delichonyesterday at 8:38 PM1 replyview on HN

I'm using their services to chat with you right now. You are correct, it's all done with good electromagnetic vibrations.


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bigyabaiyesterday at 8:47 PM

My experience was less good. Starlink suffered from intermittent outages, and enough bitrate jitter to make video calling a distraction. Latency was good but still higher than advertised, and the average download speed felt noticeably slower than wired broadband. It wasn't uncommon to see 50% dropped packets while playing a game or watching live content, which is more than I saw with Hughesnet.

It's preferable to 3G or being stranded in the woods, but there are definitely points where I wondered if a 4G LTE hotspot would have been faster for home internet.

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