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by russdill 1960 days ago
1100km / c is 3.7ms. In free air, light speed is 50% faster. So long as the distance you are covering is more than 2200km, you'll overcome that. Of course, there's also the consideration that there can also be a lot of hops in terrestrial links and it's often very far from a straight line path.