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Re:10mbps over 1km on a single pair of wires by kombre on Wednesday June 22, 2022 @10:53AM (#31836779)
>oh, fiber materials may be sand

what does sand means in this context please ?

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Re:10mbps over 1km on a single pair of wires by hervature on Wednesday June 22, 2022 @10:58AM (#31836848)
Fiber optics cables are made of glass whose primary constituent is silicon dioxide and/or quartz which are the primary constituents of sand.
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Re:10mbps over 1km on a single pair of wires by NegativeLatency on Wednesday June 22, 2022 @11:45AM (#31837558)
And therefore should be cheap in a naive estimate
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Re:10mbps over 1km on a single pair of wires by jaredhallen on Wednesday June 22, 2022 @06:25PM (#31842623)
To be fair, fiber cable itself is actually pretty cheap in the scheme of things. It's the installation and termination that account for the bulk of the cost
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Re:10mbps over 1km on a single pair of wires by kombre on Wednesday June 22, 2022 @11:08AM (#31837008)
oh okay, thx
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