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It's not the bandwidth I'm curious about, I'm wondering what the latency will be like. Satellite connections usually have bad latency because of obvious physics laws limitation. This can be bad for real time apps. Still great for most web applications though.

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These are MEO sats, not Geo stationary at 30,000km.

The round trip for these will be about London to Edinburgh and back and we video conference that distance all the time.

They were talking to Astronauts going to moon with resources way more smaller than this.

There is a saying that goes like "To build fast software, use a slow computer".

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