Starlink Beta Has Outperformed Most Internet in the US

What blows my mind is how a lot of parts in highly developed countries like the US or Germany don&#x27;t have access to a broadband internet connection.<p>We had a lot of investment from the EU to install optical fibre everywhere, even in small towns. Now we have even small companies that only operate locally with very, very competitive prices.

How many users are using it though compared to incumbents. Once the load goes up they will need to deploy more and more satellites. However seems like they can do this at will now. This gives remote working outside urban areas an attractive potential.

Alternative headline: “ISP with hardly any users and therefore no congestion turns out to be really fast!”

I&#x27;m amazed that the latency appears so low. I used satellite broadband for years here in very rural England, latency was more like 1000ms!

I&#x27;m very curious how the system will hold up when 10s of thousands are using it. I think it will be a while until that happens though.

While that bandwidth is impressive, I&#x27;d be interested to know what the expected packet-delays through the atmosphere are. The lowest orbit they plan to use is 340 km which translates to a minimum 2 ms delay. While the equipment will rarely align like that, even 10 ms is fine for most human use.

&quot;For now, Starlink internet cuts off for seconds at a time every couple of minutes&quot; - wait, what?

download speed is great, but what’s the latency like?