Comment on The plan for nationwide fiber internet might be upended for Starlink
EndlessNightmare@reddthat.com 5 days agoLight 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 5 days ago
Yep, you’re right — I was just responding to parent’s comment about fiber being best because nothing is faster than light :)