Originally Posted by AdultKing

I explained this in an earlier reply.

The data transfer speed is less than a dial up modem, taking up to 13 minutes per packet of data to arrive to Earth from Mars, then each packet needs to be acknowledged (ACK) and then another piece of data transmitted in a process that can take as long as 9 hours for a single image, it's sometimes less and sometimes more depending on how close Earth is to Mars and the amount of error correction required.

Radio waves can't travel faster than the speed of light.