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		bamboozled on April 29, 2019 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: SpaceX Gets FCC Approval to Sell Wireless High-Spe... How do clients retransmit data without extremely high latency? Is it just that LEO satellites aren’t high enough for it to be a problem anymore?

Rebelgecko on April 29, 2019 | [–]

The satellites are only a few hundred miles away, and light travels faster through the atmosphere than it does through copper or fiber.

loeg on April 29, 2019 | [–]

Yes. LEO is a lot lower.

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