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0 pointsradicalbyte20d ago0 comments

Eight years ago my internet was using a current over a copper wire. Now it's light through glass. The latter is much more efficient especially over longer distances.

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b40d-48b2-979e20d ago

Eight years ago, your ISP was already on light over glass, they just didn't serve it that way to your house.

ChrisRR19d ago

But processing and retranssmission of the data at every network node still takes energy

Schiendelman19d ago

And plenty of that hardware is more than ten years old.

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