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Given that the speed of light is around a third less in currently installed fiber than it is in a vacuum, LEO could be in theory comparable. Also, beamforming phased arrays could presumably replace dish tracking given the distance is not that far and having the signal have to go down to earth midroute would also seem to be an unneccesary requirement. I agree that weather will more than likely poop on your signal though.

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Unless they are hosting the servers in orbit your destination will be on earth somewhere. You will come back down go to it then return through a similar path to the client.

the speed of light in a mostly vacuum could (provided their meshing algorithms are up to it) make latency comparable but MEO sats already have a 125ms rtt time halving that distance isn't going to get rid of that penalty.

>Unless they are hosting the servers in orbit your destination will be on earth somewhere.

Sorry, was being an idiot. Latency does of course tend to mean a round trip, not just here to there.

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