That's the speed of light in a vacuum. It's somewhat slower in matter (air).
I use satellite internet here and the latency is a little under 800ms at best. A ping has to go from my terminal up to the satellite, down to the earth station, back up from the earth station, and back down to my terminal. I blink at least once waiting for my ping to come back. Greg On Sep 22, 2010, at 7:21 PM, Josh Luthman wrote: > Totally agree. > >> When your Internet has to go 22,300 miles, at best, straight up for its >> first hop even the speed of light begins to feel slow. > > Speed of light = 186k miles per second. Light can travel that 22,300 > miles 8.5 times in one second. That's back and forth 4 times in the > time you blink. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- WISPA Wants You! Join today! http://signup.wispa.org/ -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- WISPA Wireless List: wireless@wispa.org Subscribe/Unsubscribe: http://lists.wispa.org/mailman/listinfo/wireless Archives: http://lists.wispa.org/pipermail/wireless/
