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bbgm | 5 years ago

You need to take into account the speed of light in fiber optics and switching latency. For fiber you're looking at about 5 µs/km

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SideburnsOfDoom|5 years ago

> about 5 µs/km

Which puts it at 200km in a millisecond (5 microseconds is 1 / 200 of a millisecond.) Like I said "modern communications is at a fraction of lightspeed", although I didn't want to guess what fraction. But 200 / 600 = 1/3 is a reasonable fraction, seems legit.