Breadbear83
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the scouters behave like phones irl in earth, at Speed of Light speeds, when calling someone they reach one end of the world to another in milliseconds, but a scanning machine may not be that fast at analyzing stuffAnything between the billions to trillions of times FTL, as a bare minimun the balls have fly across intergalactic distances due of Namek be in a separate quadrant, place it in another galaxy.
Beside if we want to mention underrated feats, you can also go with Namek Saga Goku be able to speedblitz Scouters as the ones of Burter and Jeice can't either track him his movement or he can rise his power level at max and then supressed it so fast that they can't read it.
The same Scouters who could actually elaborate and transmitt information from Earth to the planet where Vegeta and Nappa were present, not just the video and audio but also the power levels of Gohan.
In the Anime we also see in a filler where one of Frieza's planet they have a massive size scouter which could detect Goku and Frieza's power levels, making it even more consistent for Scouter to have MFTL+ processing/reaction speeds.
at intergalactic distances the scouters send information instantly, but you can visibly see that they take longer to scan someones power levels, so first raditz takes some time to scan Gohans power level, then after it was scanned, information is sended instantly to Vegeta and Nappa
dunno but i dont think that would be accepted, at most its baseline FTL from the blitzing technology
anyway im with the Namek Dragon balls calc, i would use andromeda galaxy end for earth to namek distance, but the galaxy quadrants being 1/4 of an observable/infinite universe makes it seems way too low
maybe using the nearest galaxy clusters from earth? im not really aknowledged on how the universe its composed