"Richard Crowley" wrote in message
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"Ruud Broens" wrote ...
With respect to welldefined edges, optical is clearly superior - even the
plastic 850 nm home variety - to coax.

For 2-3 feet, maybe. But for long distances, not clear whether
any light at all makes it through those cheap plastic extruded
"lightpipe"?

OTOH, if you're talking about proper glass fibre, yes
indeed, it beats coaxial cable over long distances. But
the OP was asking about cheap plastic Toslink.

I believe that he was. Toslink has nothing in common with the performance of
glass fiber.