xygor
join:2006-05-08
Quakertown, PA | reply to knightmb
Re: That's utterly fascinating... said by knightmb:said by floydb1982:Satellite will always be limited by the laws of physics and the speed of light so there is no helping the ping times, maybe get more bandwidth, but don't expect the nice pings you get down on Earth with Cable/DSL ISP providers. No, it's not limited by the speed of light. Well, bounded, maybe. It's a radio signal and it's even slower than light. |
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 knightmbEverybody Lies
join:2003-12-01
Franklin, TN | said by xygor:No, it's not limited by the speed of light. Well, bounded, maybe. It's a radio signal and it's even slower than light. You realize you are talking about trillionths of a second in speed right? No one is going to notice the difference between a ping time of 100 ms and 100.0000001 ms, LOL. The current natural speed limit in the universe is the speed of light in a vacuum, nothing natural can go faster and the cost to get faster than light speeds is well beyond any Satellite ISP or the home user budget. |
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 MacLeechThe one and onlyPremium
join:2001-07-14
SoCal
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said by xygor:No, it's not limited by the speed of light. Well, bounded, maybe. It's a radio signal and it's even slower than light. Actually the RF signal in coax is faster then the speed of the laser traveling in the fiber.
Look up "Velocity of Propagation" for coax and fiber.
BTW, both are slower then the speed of light in a vacuum.
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