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Old 20-07-2015, 02:11   #35
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Re: Virgin Media dropping fibre internet ad for Docsis 3?

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Originally Posted by Sephiroth View Post
Mon General gets right to the point. Fibre Optics means speed of light. That's fast and the unwashed (so to speak) will have that at the back of their mind.
Yet long distance connections that require extremely low latency use wireless, not fibre optic, because the speed of light in fibre is actually rather slow.

The 'fast'ness of fibre comes from it carrying craptons of bandwidth, and has nothing to do with the speed of light.
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