How distance affect latency with fiberoptics

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How distance affect latency with fiberoptics

« on: October 27, 2004, 01:34:43 AM »

This helped me find out why there is a big jump in latency across atlantic ocean.

http://www.rpatrick.com/tech/speeding/

Eg Stockholm to NY aprox 6300 KM that give a latency drop of 63ms, but its more then that its around 107ms for me, probl set in routing to not overload certain nodes.

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How distance affect latency with fiberoptics

« Reply #1 on: October 27, 2004, 01:48:00 AM »

Van Buren,
Thanks good info, I was surprised that the loss was that high,of course traffic figures in.
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« Reply #2 on: October 27, 2004, 05:51:59 AM »

How fast do radio signals travel through air?

If they can get a signal all the way around the world in 380 ms, why can't I get one from my house, to space, to the NOC in maryland in less than 1000 with DirecWay!?


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« Reply #3 on: October 27, 2004, 07:58:12 AM »

Because satellites are outside of the atmosphere. That's a lot of distance, and the distance between two satellites isn't that small either.


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« Reply #4 on: October 27, 2004, 08:11:23 AM »

that is very interesting.. radio would be quite slow..


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