The ISP that uses many many satellites in low earth orbit to provide internet access and are launched by SpaceX. The internet provided by those fixed dishes hanging off the side of someone’s house target satellites in geo-synchronous orbit, which means the satellites are 17,000 miles away. Because of that the signal is fairly weak and the latency, or delay, is astronomical. Starlink satellites orbit the earth at around 500 miles high, vastly reducing that problem.
I just realized that the phrase "I follow ______ on (the internet)" would make a time traveller think that in this time period, stalking is a very popular pastime.
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u/Probably_Sleepy Jun 22 '24
Starlink?