Cory Doctorow on Nostr: This broadband service is, of course, delivered via fiber optic cable. *Of course it ...

This broadband service is, of course, delivered via fiber optic cable. *Of course it is*. Fiber is vastly superior to all other forms of broadband delivery, including satellites, but also cable and DSL. Fiber caps out at 100tb/s, while cable cans out at 50gb/s - that is, fiber is *1,000* times faster:

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2019/10/why-fiber-vastly-superior-cable-and-5g

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