Elon Musk's 'Starlink'
TLDR: Starlink is super awesome, will result in mega mega joy joy for all internet users, but also faces some hard issues to get approved by governments. Introduction If you don't know what Starlink is, Wikipedia has a pretty good explanation. But I want to focus on some major 'pros' vs other current internet choices and what I think could be a big problem. Starlink is a peer to peer satellite based internet service. Each user has a 'ground station' that uplinks to the satellite (SL) network. The SL network routes the data across itself rather than the ground and only goes back to earth for the final leg of the journey. If you were communicating with another SL customer this would mean the data would never go over any earth based wires. Pros Latency The SL network, being in space, can reduce the hops required to route your data. Each router that your data has to pass through introduces a little bit of lag. Therefore less hops = less lag. ...