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I am rarely limited by the speed of light, even considering that it's much lower in fibre than in vacuum. On a good day I get pings twice as high in most online

I am rarely limited by the speed of light, even considering that it's much lower in fibre than in vacuum. On a good day I get pings twice as high in most online games; playing with friends on the other side of the Atlantic (which should be ~90ms for a round trip but often is 200) results in at least 10 additional frames worth of latency at 120Hz. Reducing the delay down to merely the speed of light would be a dramatic improvement! (I'd still lose, but at least I wouldn't be able to blame it on lag any more... maybe not an improvement after all, hm.)

Ekaros 2y ago
Even electric signals are plenty fast enough. The issue as always is all the processing like modulation and demodulation. And ofc routing. Fibre does help with this as you can do longer distance without doing it.
PaulKeeble 2y ago
Most of the time is still in the hops. Every machine along the route and transitions into fibre and electrical cables is what is adding the time. In theory we can do drastically better than we do today with faster routing machines but latency hasn’t really improved very much for long connections despite all the advancements in the past 30 years.