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The postal service can send a box with say 10 * 6 TB hdd quite fast. Say 2 days for delivery. 480 000 000 000 000 bits / 86400 sec = 5555.56 mbit/s And you ca
by hokus 8y ago
The postal service can send a box with say 10 * 6 TB hdd quite fast. Say 2 days for delivery.
480 000 000 000 000 bits / 86400 sec = 5555.56 mbit/s
And you can send as many boxes as you like in parallel.
- kortilla 8y agoHigh throughput but extremely high latency networks are significantly less useful than current networks.
- lstodd 8y agoFidonet worked and many an offshoot were spawned. I fondly remember conversations on AmiNet - an Amiga - dedicated FTN network. That was all done over PSTN with 9600 - 19200 bps modems. Latency was days. All this didn't preclude massive amounts of collaboration over it. I'd rather question if lower latency delivers any benefit.
- groestl 8y agoYet, notably, copyrighted material meant for human consumption is exactly the kind of content that aligns best with high throughput/extreme latency scenarios.
- dTal 8y ago>you can send as many boxes as you like in parallel I imagine that in practice the postal service may start to decline your custom somewhere around the quintillion-box mark, or perhaps even before...