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RickTitus OP t1_jdsidfs wrote

Reply to comment by Ape_Togetha_Strong in ELI5 How do undersea internet cables handle so much traffic? by RickTitus

Ok this helps.

Sounds like there are a lot of fancy ways to cram a lot of data more efficiently.

My baseline assumption is that two computers are typing out bytes of data one at a time and sending those individually, and then sending another. I guess i have to accept that computers have better ways of doing that

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frustrated_staff t1_jdskloy wrote

Yeah...about 16 last time I looked. Half As Interesting did a video on generations of cell service, and the same principles can be applied to sending data down wires...

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