They should have moved to the cloud. /ducks
But in all honesty, how would an internet across the solar system work?
There's open efforts to work on a protocol that would work with the extreme latency and packet loss. They're really quite fascinating.
Look into "Delay-tolerant networking" for more details.
Realistically, each ~150 ms sphere would have its own cloud infrastructure. Those systems would then bridge with one another. So idk AWS on Earth and DogeNet on Mars.
I would love for a distributed model as much as the next guy, but it's unlikely to happen for the same reasons that it isn't happening today.
The idea is sound, but the zone needs to be a bit bigger in reality. I think the moon is close enough to earth to be in the same zone (assuming antennas on "both sides", and special routing protocols to deal with day/night cycles)
> The minimum distance from the Earth to Mars is about 54.6 million kilometers. The farthest apart they can be is about 401 million km. The average distance is about 225 million km.
Loosely, the speed of light is ~300,000km/s. So 182s, 1333s, and 750s as an absolute minimum length of time from end to end.
So, there are varying orbits, that's one problem. The other problem is getting items into solar orbits.
I didn't think of this, but now you have an even bigger problem of trying to keep those items in some sort of array that is in a direct line between Earth<->Mars.
If we hand-wave away that problem, the next problem is that each hop is adding latency, so, the direct answer is: no, it makes things slower, and it's a significantly harder problem than just communicating across that distance.
But I appreciate the thought you put into this. Thank you!