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Chester09
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10-06-2016, 05:38 AM
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Imagine you were gaming on Pluto with a connection from Earth. If such a link existed, your latency would depend on the distance—pluto is about 5 billion kilometers away. That means your ping would be extremely high, likely in the thousands of milliseconds or more, making real-time interaction nearly impossible.
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Chester09
10-06-2016, 05:38 AM #1

Imagine you were gaming on Pluto with a connection from Earth. If such a link existed, your latency would depend on the distance—pluto is about 5 billion kilometers away. That means your ping would be extremely high, likely in the thousands of milliseconds or more, making real-time interaction nearly impossible.

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10-14-2016, 01:09 AM
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The quickest link to that range requires a few minutes or hours, with ping measured in milliseconds—so monitor regularly and add lots of zeros at the end
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10-14-2016, 01:09 AM #2

The quickest link to that range requires a few minutes or hours, with ping measured in milliseconds—so monitor regularly and add lots of zeros at the end

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10-26-2016, 12:25 AM
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10-26-2016, 12:25 AM #3

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10-27-2016, 11:26 AM
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About 5 hours 30 minutes, give or take 8 minutes depending on where Earth is in its rotation. The connection would also probably drop in the winter since that would be when Pluto is behind the Sun, at least with where Pluto currently is in its orbit. Overall, a ping of about 20 million. Edit: BUT WAIT THERE'S MORE Ping is a round trip, so it would actually be about 11 hours, or about 40 million ms ping. Edit 2: AND I'M JUST GETTING STARTED Pluto has an elliptical orbit, or at least more elliptical than the other planets, so it would be between 8 hours 20 minutes and 13 hours 40 minutes for a round trip, also give or take those 8 minutes.
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10-27-2016, 11:26 AM #4

About 5 hours 30 minutes, give or take 8 minutes depending on where Earth is in its rotation. The connection would also probably drop in the winter since that would be when Pluto is behind the Sun, at least with where Pluto currently is in its orbit. Overall, a ping of about 20 million. Edit: BUT WAIT THERE'S MORE Ping is a round trip, so it would actually be about 11 hours, or about 40 million ms ping. Edit 2: AND I'M JUST GETTING STARTED Pluto has an elliptical orbit, or at least more elliptical than the other planets, so it would be between 8 hours 20 minutes and 13 hours 40 minutes for a round trip, also give or take those 8 minutes.

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10-27-2016, 12:11 PM
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It relies on the type of link you choose. Imagine a copper wire? Fiber? Wireless signals? Let's pick fiber for instance. Light travels about 31% slower in fiber than in a vacuum—let's use 200,000 km/s for simplicity. At 7.5 billion kilometers between Earth and Pluto, a round trip would take roughly 15 billion kilometers at 200,000 km/s, which equals 75,000 seconds—about 20 hours and 50 minutes. In the ideal case, you're still bound by the speed of light in a vacuum (299,792,458 m/s). Going beyond that would push physics into strange territory.
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10-27-2016, 12:11 PM #5

It relies on the type of link you choose. Imagine a copper wire? Fiber? Wireless signals? Let's pick fiber for instance. Light travels about 31% slower in fiber than in a vacuum—let's use 200,000 km/s for simplicity. At 7.5 billion kilometers between Earth and Pluto, a round trip would take roughly 15 billion kilometers at 200,000 km/s, which equals 75,000 seconds—about 20 hours and 50 minutes. In the ideal case, you're still bound by the speed of light in a vacuum (299,792,458 m/s). Going beyond that would push physics into strange territory.

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