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I'm in Wisconsin, just got it, and am seeing 65-115 down, 15-40 up. I was hoping it would be better than Hughesnet, but I didn't expect it would be quite this good. I did have about a five minute downtime yesterday. Not too shabby!

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What's your latency like?

I'm in exurban Wisconsin. Speeds are fine, but Charter has terrible routing that pushes everything out to Minnesota before routing back down to Chicago. 40ms to 60ms latency on EVERYTHING.

It's varied from as low as 30ms up to almost 80. Latency is just not going to be great with satellites, seeing that we're pushing it out to fricking space.

Except it’s low space. And signals travel faster in air than in glass. And the path is likely more direct.

Just space alone isn’t enough to say the latency will be worse.

yes, just 341 miles.

so 3.6 milliseconds raw speed-of-light round trip when overhead.

I don't know what it would be like as it reaches the horizon, and how much latency each hop takes.

You might be interested in https://youtu.be/m05abdGSOxY, for some (long) routes it can theoretically be faster.

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