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Nothing is faster than speed of light. In fact signals transmitted via copper wires are traveling at 2/3 the speed of light. Don't know the details about fiber

Nothing is faster than speed of light. In fact signals transmitted via copper wires are traveling at 2/3 the speed of light. Don't know the details about fiber ocean links, but it certainly won't be faster than speed of light.

spullara 4y ago
Fiber optics are also about 2/3rds the speed of light. One of the interesting things about Starlink is that when they have laser links between satellites they should be able to beat terrestrial latencies over very long distances like California to London.
- sidewndr46 4y ago
  would a satellite to satellite laser in low earth orbit be faster than a radio link between the same satellites?
  - oynqr 4y ago
    If you mean lower latency by faster, then no.
  - spullara 4y ago
    only bandwidth wise. latency would be the same assuming that the transmitters and receivers in both cases can process the signal just as fast.