Helium balloons do not orbit the earth, they are designed to be static, but they at the mercy of stratosphere air currents, storms, etc. This is the reason Google shut this program down in Jan because it failed to work.
Satellite technology is geosynchronous and has been around for years but is still slow. Elon Musk is working on a chain of LEO safelights to overcome this. It is still slow because it uses radio waves. It is good only for rural markets.
Wire data travels at the speed of light so it is the defacto standard.
Starlink is now delivering initial beta service both domestically and internationally, and will continue expansion to near global coverage of the populated world in 2021.
During beta, users can expect to see data speeds vary from 50Mb/s to 150Mb/s and latency from 20ms to 40ms in most locations over the next several months as we enhance the Starlink system. There will also be brief periods of no connectivity at all.
As we launch more satellites, install more ground stations and improve our networking software, data speed, latency and uptime will improve dramatically.
"wires do not transmit data at the speed of light"
Uh, yeah they do fuck wit. Sea bottom cables are fiber optic for one. Even your table lamp sends electrons to it at the speed of light.
In the case of an electrical cord connecting a table lamp or some other household item to a power source, the copper wire inside the cord acts as the conductor. This energy travels as electromagnetic waves at about the speed of light, which is 670,616,629 miles per hour,1 or 300 million meters per second.
The last two sentences on page 388 explain that optical fiber that allows light to travel 67% of the speed of light comply with IEEE (The Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers) standards.
I was hoping you were not a total fuck wit, but you really are. Yeah, electromagnetic energy travels at the speed of light less 30% outside a vacuum. For all practical purposes, wired energy is fucking fast. So thanks for nit-picking a point.
With fiber cables, data is transmitted via pulses of light across thin strands of glass, enabling fiber-optic cable speed that is near the speed of light.
Helium balloons do not orbit the earth, they are designed to be static, but they at the mercy of stratosphere air currents, storms, etc. This is the reason Google shut this program down in Jan because it failed to work.
Satellite technology is geosynchronous and has been around for years but is still slow. Elon Musk is working on a chain of LEO safelights to overcome this. It is still slow because it uses radio waves. It is good only for rural markets.
Wire data travels at the speed of light so it is the defacto standard.
The deployed wires do not transmit data at the speed of light.
According to https://www.starlink.com/ (Elon Musk's company):
High-speed, low latency broadband internet.
Starlink is now delivering initial beta service both domestically and internationally, and will continue expansion to near global coverage of the populated world in 2021.
During beta, users can expect to see data speeds vary from 50Mb/s to 150Mb/s and latency from 20ms to 40ms in most locations over the next several months as we enhance the Starlink system. There will also be brief periods of no connectivity at all.
As we launch more satellites, install more ground stations and improve our networking software, data speed, latency and uptime will improve dramatically.
"wires do not transmit data at the speed of light"
Uh, yeah they do fuck wit. Sea bottom cables are fiber optic for one. Even your table lamp sends electrons to it at the speed of light.
In the case of an electrical cord connecting a table lamp or some other household item to a power source, the copper wire inside the cord acts as the conductor. This energy travels as electromagnetic waves at about the speed of light, which is 670,616,629 miles per hour,1 or 300 million meters per second.
IEEE Standard for Ethernet https://ecfsapi.fcc.gov/file/1050839507018/IEEE%20Standard%20for%20Ethernet.pdf
The last two sentences on page 388 explain that optical fiber that allows light to travel 67% of the speed of light comply with IEEE (The Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers) standards.
I was hoping you were not a total fuck wit, but you really are. Yeah, electromagnetic energy travels at the speed of light less 30% outside a vacuum. For all practical purposes, wired energy is fucking fast. So thanks for nit-picking a point.
With fiber cables, data is transmitted via pulses of light across thin strands of glass, enabling fiber-optic cable speed that is near the speed of light.