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The plan for nationwide fiber internet might be upended for Starlink (www.theverge.com)
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[–] EndlessNightmare@reddthat.com 5 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Light in a fiber travels much more slowly than in vacuum — light in fiber travels at around 67% the speed of light in vacuum

I'm a complete laymen when it comes to this, but this sounds like it would pertain to latency rather than bandwidth. I expect that fiber would have a much higher data capacity than satellite.

[–] qjkxbmwvz@startrek.website 3 points 3 days ago

Yep, you're right

I was just responding to parent's comment about fiber being best because nothing is faster than light :)