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    1. it's kind of arbitrary and maybe even incorrect that "Internet speed" refers to bandwidth and not latency
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    Easier to make products which improve bandwidth than products which improve latency - and marketing wants to talk about speed, not the jargon term of bandwidth.
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      fundamentally, easier to detect a shorter burst of light than to pursuade light to travel faster