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Offshore work, for instance. Lots and lots of vessels have painfully slow satellite links - think <=64kbps - whereas the others mostly have very slow satellite
by lb1lf 8y ago
Offshore work, for instance.
Lots and lots of vessels have painfully slow satellite links - think <=64kbps - whereas the others mostly have very slow satellite links - ~512kbps.
Trust me, in such conditions you do not want to cough and ask whether you can download your training material off the corporate VPN...
(Heck, in many cases, shipowner policy prevents any third party computer from being connected to any onboard IT infrastructure, anyway.)
- gnode 8y agoWorking at sea; an Antarctic base; Mars; etc. is very much a niche for which specific exceptions can be made, but is irrelevant to almost all employers. In most cases security is the greater concern.
- pythonaut_16 8y agoIn context of the original post though, it's unlikely IBM engineers are doing much work on ocean going vessels with 64-512kbps satellite links