On 27/07/14 22:46, Andrew Gabriel wrote:
In article 2,
DerbyBorn writes:
I sometimes stay awake at night wondering how it would be if electrons only
went at about 100mph!!

In a typical wire, they move slower than that.
However, the wave-front of the movement is typically
within one order of magnitude of the speed of light.


50% of c for some random coax cable we had to measure the speed of
signal propagation in, back in our physics labs.