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Stupid. At a short distance there's no way light would be nearly as reliable or fast as copper/gold contacts mainly due to the translation time and process from signal-light-signal again.

 

For internet? Hell yeah! You can get some nice mbps out of a fiber optic cable, but that's running to your home and into your router, not your PC.

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7 minutes ago, DaJakerBoss said:

For internet? Hell yeah! You can get some nice mbps out of a fiber optic cable, but that's running to your home and into your router, not your PC.

what is this mbs, lets be real 12 GBs can come threw fiber.

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2 minutes ago, GDRRiley said:

what is the mbs lets be real 12 GBs can come threw fiber.

nice mbps == nice gbps

 

Ya know, besides the price of that.

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2 minutes ago, DaJakerBoss said:

nice mbps == nice gbps

 

Ya know, besides the price of that.

I can get 1gbps for 90$. I don't know what the cost of speed above that is here but I can get multiple 100gbps links if I payed for the 1/2 mile build out. 

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24 minutes ago, DaJakerBoss said:

Stupid. At a short distance there's no way light would be nearly as reliable or fast as copper/gold contacts mainly due to the translation time and process from signal-light-signal again.

 

For internet? Hell yeah! You can get some nice mbps out of a fiber optic cable, but that's running to your home and into your router, not your PC.

I know it's a ludicrous idea. I just wonder what the upsides would be to doing something this way. You'd probably have to have a massive computer for it to be something to consider. Would be kinda neat because you could have components very far apart and still potentially have something usable.

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You wouldn't have to deal with as much heat if you use a frequency that we have 100% perfect mirrors for but optics are a bitch and I would assume both speed and size would be worse

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38 minutes ago, Azerafel said:

I know it's a ludicrous idea. I just wonder what the upsides would be to doing something this way. You'd probably have to have a massive computer for it to be something to consider. Would be kinda neat because you could have components very far apart and still potentially have something usable.

You'd lose so much speed you'd be turning your GTX 1080 TI into a GT 410

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1 hour ago, DaJakerBoss said:

, but that's running to your home and into your router, not your PC

Shenanigans, there are plenty of fiber optic nics :P

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37 minutes ago, beersykins said:

Shenanigans, there are plenty of fiber optic nics :P

Yup, like the 10Gbit ones in my computer, servers, and NAS :D

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