John Carmack on X: "Starlink announced a $5/month plan that gives unlimited usage at 500kbits/s.
Modern apps and web pages would immediately back up every buffer and make for a painful experience, but it is fun to consider optimizing inside that tight box (in the 90s, 4x ISDN was high end!)." / X
PostConversationStarlink announced a $5/month plan that gives unlimited usage at 500kbits/s.
Modern apps and web pages would immediately back up every buffer and make for a painful experience, but it is fun to consider optimizing inside that tight box (in the 90s, 4x ISDN was high end!).
With Starlink’s good latency, input-distribution multiplayer games would still work fine, as long as they didn’t download anything. You could even have voice chat.
With an optimal implementation, you could scrol...
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