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Sending less data over starlink (which is not tcp/ip btw).

I’d you can make 10Mb suddenly only require 900k of actual raw bandwidth by say adding a fpga or something then you can increase throughout to the users.



Technology only improves compression ratios to a certain point, and we passed that point with lossless compression decades ago. We're approaching that point with lossy compression now.

Going beyond that point requires the laws of physics (more precisely, the laws of information theory) to change, and that's not going to happen.


Hopefully in 2020 most internet traffic is encrypted. If encrypted traffic is compressible you're doing it wrong.


It would help if it was compressed pre-encryption, by the server.


If that big compression rates where achievable why wouldn't we be already using them? They would be standard in any network.




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