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by worewood 1432 days ago
Surprisingly high IMO
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I know people who live within 30 minutes of me who get less than that - and I live in a college town.
They didn't have a 70m sized parabolic dish, though.
They don't, that is true.

It's just highly impressive to me what we're able to accomplish when we actually focus effort on a task - including getting high-ish bandwidth back and forth between something in space.

Considering that's 2MB/s upload, I get less than that and I live in a major city with a major ISP.
The DSN can receive data from MRO at Mars at up to 4 megabits per second, apparently. JWST is way closer, so it should be quite a bit faster.