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by cycomanic 821 days ago
Even more:

> Starlink is the world’s most advanced satellite internet constellation, beaming terabytes per second to the most remote parts of Earth. Made possible by the advent of reusable rocketry, Starlink marks the beginning of a new age of orbital technology.

And 188 Gbit/s is still quite far away from Tbytes/s.

Also the later counters of Tbytes of "bandwidth" per day are somewhat weird measures. Unfortunately way too often people denote the measure of data/time as bandwidth while it is more accurately named throughput. Also as a rate it shouldn't be counting up like that. I suspect it means data transferred today.

Generally speaking I think the website is quite cool, but I wish they'd dial down the fanboyism.

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Isn't that 188GB per second - roughly 1.5tbit?

My understanding was the intent is to serve traffic across the mesh and only downlink it at the closest terrestrial point, which should allow for significantly more.