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Wireless has lower latency, since it can be beamed in a straight line. Fiber has to follow geography and infrastructur, making the path physically longer.
by bombela 3y ago
Wireless has lower latency, since it can be beamed in a straight line. Fiber has to follow geography and infrastructur, making the path physically longer.
- superkuh 3y agoPlus the speed of light in a medium like an optical fiber is slower than in air.
- sidewndr46 3y agoNo, you can't just beam RF energy directly through the Earth in a straight line. That isn't going to work at all.
- bombela 3y agoOf course not. But point to point microwave will be a shorter and faster path than the meandering fibers. https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2016/11/private-microwave-networks-financial-hft/ https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2016/11/priva...
- vitaflo 3y agoThis isn’t technically a straight line as you need to bounce the signals off the ionosphere. But it’s still faster in any case.
- bombela 3y agoAs I understand, the signal is relayed between towers within line of sights, any bounce would increase the latency. https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2016/11/private-microwave-networks-financial-hft/ https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2016/11/priva...