drnick1 23 minutes ago

Isn't 10Gbps for an entire ship kind of very slow?

  • leoh 16 minutes ago

    It's not amazing. Assuming 3k people are using the connection simultaneously (I think these ships can have like 9k+ in practice), that is ~412.5kilobytes/second.

idiotsecant 31 minutes ago

Pretty impressive. What is the laser link bandwidth between starlink satellites? Can any starlink node also be a relay station? I don't know much about the network, I guess I didn't really realize that links between satellites was a thing now, I thought it required that a node have LOS to you and a base station for the system to work.

(Edit) According to this (old) link there's something over 40pb of laser link traffic every day.

https://hackaday.com/2024/02/05/starlinks-inter-satellite-la...