• EndlessNightmare@reddthat.com
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    2 days ago

    Light in a fiber travels much more slowly than in vacuum — light in fiber travels at around 67% the speed of light in vacuum

    I’m a complete laymen when it comes to this, but this sounds like it would pertain to latency rather than bandwidth. I expect that fiber would have a much higher data capacity than satellite.

    • qjkxbmwvz@startrek.website
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      2 days ago

      Yep, you’re right — I was just responding to parent’s comment about fiber being best because nothing is faster than light :)