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I am not sure exactly the distance to the new Leo constellations. Maybe 2k km? If that’s the case even with the speed of light advantage it’s still roughly 30ms round trip just to go up and down not including any electronic delays in the equipment. So unfortunately NYSE-LSE would still be faster on fiber.



Starlink is planning to deploy at 550km according to Wikipedia.


I recall some hacks to force a call via cable to get improved quality decades ago.




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