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Old 20-07-2015, 08:06   #36
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Re: Virgin Media dropping fibre internet ad for Docsis 3?

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Originally Posted by qasdfdsaq View Post
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.

I think Seph was referring to public perception rather than any technical viewpoint.
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