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Re:Streaming video has surpassed cable subscriptions worldwide by luhn on Saturday March 23, 2019 @04:41PM (#19472250)
Source to that? My napkin math tells me speed of light across US is ~10ms, my experience tells me latency is ~100ms (certainly not 1s), so that's only one of of magnitude.
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Re:Streaming video has surpassed cable subscriptions worldwide by fooker on Monday March 25, 2019 @01:41AM (#19480526)
You are not going to stream games from the west coast to the east coast. It will be more like a data center in/near your city to your home (..say.. within a 50km radius). Currently, that pathway isn't very well optimized and I routinely see local services having a latency of 30+ ms in the bay area.

I am suggesting this will be significantly more optimized, not how fast you can communicate over long distances.

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