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Biochemikas
7 years ago

Re: What's your network statistics?

Well obviously you don't measure speed in seconds (or ms). We could calculate the speed though. E.g., my ping to New York is ~100 ms. Back and forth distance to NY is ~14k km. For simplicity, let's assume there are absolutely no delays in hubs and server and all 100 ms is spent just travelling. That results in signal travel speed of 140 km/ms, which is ~47% of speed of light. And if you remember that this is including all the stops in hubs and server,  we're really damn close to the physical limitations of communication (speed of light). XD

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  • Koochi-Q's avatar
    Koochi-Q
    7 years ago

    @BiochemikasSpeed of light (not actual but the widely used) is 300k m/s not 140km/ms... cause that would mean 140k km/s (without using the 47% obviously) ;0 unless my tired brain is doing some weird math

  • Biochemikas's avatar
    Biochemikas
    7 years ago

    Speed of light is 3*10^8 m/s = 300 000 km/s  = 300 km/ms.

    140/300 = 0.47

    P.S. The wires and air are not vacuum, but I'm just using speed of light in vacuum for simplicity, it's also rounded up to the 1st digit.