Oh Jesus Christ that’s fucking high dumbassery. This is what I mean about the left and Musk.
I don’t even need to read the article or anything else because I know why you’d want to have a string of sats: it’d increase throughput and reduce jitter and latency. So, in actuality, the data in toto would get there faster — though no individual signal would.
Networking fucking 101. It doesn’t work any differently just because you’re doing it in space.