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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sudo@lemmy.today 11 months 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
sloppy_diffuser@sh.itjust.works 11 months ago
affiliate@lemmy.world 11 months ago
that would really help with playing video games
spez@sh.itjust.works 11 months ago
What’s hollow core fibre.
sloppy_diffuser@sh.itjust.works 11 months 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.
mindbleach@sh.itjust.works 11 months ago
… wait, how does that work? Total internal reflection happens at the boundary to a lower index of refraction.
Cort@lemmy.world 11 months ago
How do you get internal reflectance with a hollow core?
stratoscaster@lemmy.zip 11 months ago
Then you find out the real reason they need faster latency is because they’re pinging the server for new data every 1ms
Blackmist@feddit.uk 11 months ago
So can you give me an estimate for when you can solve that?
simpleslipeagle@lemmynsfw.com 11 months ago
Anytime I run into that question I tell them if I could manage FTL comms I wouldn’t be working here.
brygphilomena@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Customer: So… can we do that? Change the laws of physics? What congressman do we need to email?
orbitz@lemmy.ca 11 months ago
That’s cause they always have money in the lobbying budget to fix things.