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Re:Why the NBN needs to go the full way by 2muchcoffeeman on Friday September 06, 2013 @01:27AM (#6338845)
umm, light and electricity travel at the same speed ...

? Light travels at ~299m/s. This will slow down in a medium like fibre, but it's still faster than anything else.

At best, in a particle accelerator you can accelerate electrons to maybe 0.8, 0.9 c?

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Re:Why the NBN needs to go the full way by retrogradeorbit on Friday September 06, 2013 @01:45AM (#6338886)
Yes, but the electric field that forms as a circuit closes travels at the speed of light.
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Re:Why the NBN needs to go the full way by 2muchcoffeeman on Saturday September 07, 2013 @07:01AM (#6344688)
I am not sure what you are talking about. When you push data down a wire you are definitely not close to c.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Propagation_delay

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Re:Why the NBN needs to go the full way by ekianjo on Friday September 06, 2013 @01:43AM (#6338883)
Surely you mean 299 000 000 meters/ second ?
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Re:Why the NBN needs to go the full way by 2muchcoffeeman on Saturday September 07, 2013 @06:59AM (#6344687)
Yes!
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