To no great surprise, Ookla found Starlink beats HughesNet and Viasat handly. The company found that “Starlink was the only satellite internet provider in the United States with fixed-broadband-like latency figures, and median download speeds fast enough to handle most of the needs of modern online life at 97.23 Megabits per second (Mbps) during Q2 2021. HughesNet was a distant second at 19.73 Mbps and Viasat third at 18.13 Mbps.”As for latency, the time between when you start an activity over the internet and when you get a response back, it’s not even a competition. Starlink’s median latency, 45 milliseconds (ms) is close to fixed broadband’s 14 ms. Low latency is vital for voice and video calling, gaming, and live content streaming. By comparison, Viasat, 630 ms, and HughesNet, 724 ms, are almost unusable for these purposes.
Source: Starlink is better than its satellite competition but not as fast as landline internet | ZDNet
