[spullara]

Fiber optics are also about 2/3rds the speed of light. One of the interesting things about Starlink is that when they have laser links between satellites they should be able to beat terrestrial latencies over very long distances like California to London.

[sidewndr46]

would a satellite to satellite laser in low earth orbit be faster than a radio link between the same satellites?

[spullara]

only bandwidth wise. latency would be the same assuming that the transmitters and receivers in both cases can process the signal just as fast.

[oynqr]

If you mean lower latency by faster, then no.