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LEO satellite comms coming online to route some of this traffic should be closer to c since will relay satellite to satellite to the last mile ground station to then reach the destination.
It is faster per distance covered, but the distance that needs to be covered is significantly larger so it cancels out i think.
I haven’t digested this whole paper, but it seems like it would be faster than fiber all the way. https://people.eecs.berkeley.edu/~sylvia/cs268-2019/papers/starlink.pdf
Thanks for the source :)
So yeah makes sense. The inital distance to space completely tanks the short distance latency, but eventually gets compensated by the higher transmissions speed when trying to cover longer distances. I havent found it yet, but what i really wanna know is the distance value at which sat overtakes fiber. I dont think this paper covers that sadly.