[bawolff]

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.

[fastball]

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]