Quote Originally Posted by Wolfie View Post
I don't think you understand how this stuff works.

99% of all intercontinental communications on planet Earth go across these transoceanic cables. These cables aren't IEEE 802.3 compliant, the pipelines handle terabits of data per second. These are the highest quality fiber optic cables we have in the world.

But each hop between nodes, and each meter traveled across these cables takes time my friend. As of right now in the human world, there is no faster way to send data to another continent than through these cables. The IEEE 802.3 standard refers to copper and short range fiber optic cables, which have absolutely zero bearing on international communication lines.
I'd just like to say something as well the longer the cable the less data it retains. Point in case you get a better connection in a 25 ft ethernet cable than you do a 100 ft one and even better connection with an even shorter cable so with the more hops you have to do between servers the less latency and more packet loss you get and or even can have data corruption (I knew that one day working for philips/magnavox would work out damn near gave me a headache the first three days of training though lol)