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sudo@lemmy.today ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

Customer: Why is there so much latency over my tunnel from us-east to us-west?

Me: checks latency seems pretty normal, what’s the issue?

Customer: The latency is too much. Why is it not as fast as us-east-1 to us-east-2?

Me: They are near each other. Us-West is across the entire United States

Customer: Make faster

Me: This is the speed of light. And over copper it’s about 2/3 that

Customer: hmm are you sure that’s as fast as it can go?

Me: Well, unless we change the laws of physics your not going to get any better latency

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brygphilomena@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
Customer: So… can we do that? Change the laws of physics? What congressman do we need to email?

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- orbitz@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
  That’s cause they always have money in the lobbying budget to fix things.
  
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sloppy_diffuser@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
For the low price of billions and a decade of work they could build out hollow core fiber coast to coast to get the last 1/3 c.

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- affiliate@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
  that would really help with playing video games
  
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- spez@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
  What’s hollow core fibre.
  
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  - sloppy_diffuser@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
    Its a type of fiber optic cable where the center of the cable is literally hollow. Normal fiber uses a glass core. Light passing through glass also travels about 2/3 the speed of the light since the speed of light is only constant in an empty vacuum. With hollow core, light is no longer passing through glass so its speed is much closer to the actual speed of light.
    
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    mindbleach@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
    … wait, how does that work? Total internal reflection happens at the boundary to a lower index of refraction.
    
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    Cort@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
    How do you get internal reflectance with a hollow core?
    
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stratoscaster@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
Then you find out the real reason they need faster latency is because they’re pinging the server for new data every 1ms

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Blackmist@feddit.uk ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
So can you give me an estimate for when you can solve that?

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simpleslipeagle@lemmynsfw.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
Anytime I run into that question I tell them if I could manage FTL comms I wouldn’t be working here.

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