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by fastball 2221 days ago
More bandwidth == less switching == lower latency.

Also light can travel from point A to the diametrically opposite point on the surface of earth in 66ms.

Currently it takes 227ms to ping New York from Tokyo[1]. As light travels, those two cities are only 36ms away from each other. Seems like there is plenty of room for improvement, even given the speed of light.

[1] https://wondernetwork.com/pings
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bawolff 2221 days ago
That's within 1 (base 10) order of magnitude of the theoretical max (which seems like it would be very hatd to get close to). Sure there is room for incremental improvements, but we're not going to be making order of magnitude improvements.
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fastball 2221 days ago
We already have the actual information traveling at the max speed, the delta is purely the cost of indirect routes and switching. It seems very reasonable to assume we could get much closer to the theoretical max.

Also this is obviously only a max speed if we never figure out superluminal communication, which... [fingers crossed]

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