If Russia takes out all the Internet cables like the news is saying. How much of that traffic can be re-routed to satellite? - eviltoast

Would Starlink and other satellite ISP’s be able to mitigate some of the traffic?

  • halcyoncmdr@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    3 months ago

    Not just curved, but curved quite substantially, despite what your eyes may tell you. At eye level on a flat plain you can only see about 3 miles due to the curvature. The closest points across the Atlantic are 1,770 miles apart.

    • DMBFFF@lemmy.world
      2·
      3 months ago

      At 10 meters, line-of-sight is over 10 km.

      From a jet traveling at 1 km, line-of-sight is over 100 km.