On Oct 22, 2005, at 12:54 AM, Wouter van Ooijen wrote:
>
> That's why I suggested fiber, in which light travels
>  with the speed of light...

But it doesn't.   In fact, IIRC, an ethernet signal on coax (sorry; old
knowledge) travels at about .77c while light down a glass fiber only
travels at about .67c

(index of refraction is ration of speed of light in substance to speed 
of
light in vacuum.  For glass it's about 1.5)

BillW
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