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light is 186k miles per second, the other side of the globe is 12.5k miles away - so 67 ms / 130ms+ round trip in optimum conditions. Add more for network hops
by fahrvrgnugen 27d ago
light is 186k miles per second, the other side of the globe is 12.5k miles away - so 67 ms / 130ms+ round trip in optimum conditions. Add more for network hops and consider that fiber is not quite as fast as vacuum.
300ms feels extremely optimistic coming from my perspective of someone living on an island in SE Asia
- jmaw 26d agoSimply send your cable through the center of the earth and boom, latency reduced by ~1/2. Remember me when you make billions of $ from my idea.
- 93po 26d agoIt'd actually be about 36% shorter :)
- tiborsaas 26d agoCan't wait for the neutrino-internet to launch once they fix the packet loss issue :)