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Old Dec 7, 2024 | 11:01 am
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Originally Posted by eng3
Isn't it difficult to have a voice conversation over satellite due to the latency? I suppose it is better than nothing.
Think of the future, a key difference from today is StarLink is LEOS (Low Earth Orbit Satellites) vs Viasat (GEOS - Geostationary Satellite). For LEOS, the latency is significantly lower, 50 milliseconds vs 250 milliseconds for GEOS
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