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cryptonector on June 4, 2020 | parent | context | favorite | on: SpaceX Starlink is now its own ASN and present at ...

> The way to get almost c on earth is via direct microwave links.

But line of sight. Short-haul.

davedx on June 4, 2020 | [–]

You'd be surprised how far HFT companies run their microwave link networks to get better latencies :)

https://sniperinmahwah.wordpress.com/2014/09/22/hft-in-my-ba...

ed_blackburn on June 4, 2020 | | [–]

From one space elevator to the next. Yeah?

redis_mlc on June 5, 2020 | [–]

FYI: both Canada and the US have had transcontinental RF links. The repeaters slow down the transmission by about 30%.

However those were fairly low-bandwidth.

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