[ih] connection performance, FTP RIP

Joseph Touch touch at strayalpha.com
Mon Sep 28 09:18:38 PDT 2020



> On Sep 28, 2020, at 8:42 AM, John Levine via Internet-history <internet-history at elists.isoc.org> wrote:
> 
> As network speeds have increased but the speed of light has not,

As a side point, the SOL has actually increased too (not in a good way) in some cases.

Signals in fiber propagate at 2/3 the velocity of RF, free space optical, or open-ladder, though they’ve stated roughly the same as coax and twisted-pair.

Joe





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