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by catiopatio 1027 days ago
Microseconds matter to them; even with a satellite in low-earth orbit (~342 mile), you’re looking at a round-trip time of 3.68ms, on top of any packet latency introduced by the satellite itself.

It’s always going to be faster to go point-to-point than pay the light-speed cost of bouncing all the way out to orbit and back.