Upgrade the Internet?

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I'm going to relocate to China next week, so goodbye good old Britain. I have always attempted to log onto Ocuk when I'm there for holiday but due to the location, sometimes it would take ages for a thread to open. This also applies when I'm attempting to play internet games with servers in europe. So I'm just wondering, have we topped the technology for internet(network capabilities), as the cables layed under the sea will always be like this, and there will always be seconds delay should you want to gain access to a server on the otherside of the world or play online games with host in another continent to you?
 
I don't think it's the speed of light that's the bottleneck, more the latancy caused by the numerous hops the data needs to make. I wouldn't imagine the Great Firewall of China helps much either.
 
bum said:
I'm going to relocate to China next week, so goodbye good old Britain. I have always attempted to log onto Ocuk when I'm there for holiday but due to the location, sometimes it would take ages for a thread to open. This also applies when I'm attempting to play internet games with servers in europe. So I'm just wondering, have we topped the technology for internet(network capabilities), as the cables layed under the sea will always be like this, and there will always be seconds delay should you want to gain access to a server on the otherside of the world or play online games with host in another continent to you?
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we arn't going to get faster than the speed of light any time soon really so you are always going to have a 80ms + ping to the USA for example.

What can get better is the connection from you to the ISP. ADSL has quite high latency, higher than cable, especially with interleaving, but still only in the 20s. LLU and BTs 21CN network gets rid of most of this.

Basically it shouldn't be a problem.
 
lokkers said:
I don't think it's the speed of light that's the bottleneck, more the latancy caused by the numerous hops the data needs to make. I wouldn't imagine the Great Firewall of China helps much either.
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indeed, also, multiplexing all the international signals into the very few international pipes must increase latency rather considerably
 
Aod said:
indeed, also, multiplexing all the international signals into the very few international pipes must increase latency rather considerably
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And having less resiliance is really not a good idea.

This really is a gash theread, suggest anyone interested ha s a quick read regarding how the internet works first.
 
starfighter said:
we arn't going to get faster than the speed of light any time soon really so you are always going to have a 80ms + ping to the USA for example.

What can get better is the connection from you to the ISP. ADSL has quite high latency, higher than cable, especially with interleaving, but still only in the 20s. LLU and BTs 21CN network gets rid of most of this.

Basically it shouldn't be a problem.
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Where's the LOL WHUT image when you need one? There's nothing inherent in the design of ADSL or cable that makes one technology better than the other regarding latency, it purely depends on the amount of hops to the server.

21CN and LLU don't really have anything to do with it.
 
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