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keep in mind, that we can't process your emails unless they're in our inbox.
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| | Where is my email? | | | | | | Email is "SENT" but, where is my post? | | | Email doesn't just go from point A to point B. It hops along a network path between nodes. |
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of these nodes (routers) will just forward the network traffic to the
next node. Some of the nodes (email servers) will store the email
in a queue for dissemination to the next hop.
It is impossible
to predict the length of time an email will take to get from point A to
point B as there are too many unknown variables |
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| | How Fast is email? | | | | | | It's pretty fast, but not really super fast, sometimes slow, every once in a while really slow, but not too often. |
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An email makes it to the other side of the planet roughly, at the speed of electricity. |
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word electricity refers generally to the movement of electrons (or
other charge carriers) through a conductor in the presence of potential
and an electric field. The speed of this flow has multiple meanings. In
everyday electrical and electronic devices, the signals or energy
travel as electromagnetic waves typically on the order of 50%–99% of
the speed of light, while the electrons themselves move (drift) much
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speed of light:
Miles per second: 186,000
Miles per hour: 671 million
From Sun to Earth (1 AU): 8.3 min |
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