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It doesn't say what technology is used, does it? Could be using wifi, or cell networks.
by bagels 2y ago
It doesn't say what technology is used, does it? Could be using wifi, or cell networks.
- pclmulqdq 2y agoWired, using the subsea fiber cables, your still stuck at a 60 ms RTT minimum from NYC to Dublin. Add in video transcoding time and a more realistic estimate of the networks on either side, and you're looking at latency closer to 200-400 ms. WiFi over this distance actually isn't a significant contributor to latency.
- bagels 2y agoWhere does it say it's using a wired connection? Agree that the latency from the distance is going to be a big factor.
- oceanplexian 2y agoActually transcoding can be done far below that with consumer hardware. I’m doing Quicksync accelerated transcoding right now for Moonlight and encoding/decoding latency is only a few ms. And Wifi is, by far the greatest source of latency. In fact I can get data to a datacenter a few hundred km away over a fiber connection faster than Wifi across the room (<5ms vs 10-20ms)
- pclmulqdq 2y agoA few hundred km and 5000-7000 km under the ocean are very different. Good to know transcoding can be so fast, though. Dublin is about 10-50 times further from NY than you are from that datacenter, and the speed of light is a universal limit.