Speedy thing goes in, speedy thing comes out.

    • ThankYouVeryMuch
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      121 year ago

      Nope, if we are talking about the actual speed of the signal optical fiber is relatively slow at ~1/3 c, compared to air or copper where it’s almost c. They’re using ‘speed’ meaning bandwidth. A van full of sd cards would have a massive bandwidth, but a very slow actual speed

    • snooggums
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      51 year ago

      It is pretty confusing that we refer to the volume of data as speed in networks.

      • @the_tab_key@lemmy.world
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        161 year ago

        We don’t. The measure is bits/s, which is a speed because it’s measured relative to time. 1 TB is a volume/amount, 1TB/s is a speed.