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Electricity speed and data transfer

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Mar 15, 20264411 views
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I've read in some places that electricity is very slow. Then how can Internet traffic in copper wires be so fast? I think I have a great gap of knowledge about the low-level data transfer structure. Anyways, I searched for it and couldn't find, so?

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Electricity in wires is essentially the movement of charge-carriers such as electrons. These move very slowly. However a change in voltage at one end of a wire causes a corresponding change at the other end of the wire almost instantly. Think of a vā€¦

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