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Even if traffic is drastically slower, on the order of a dialup modem, there is still be massive value in free internet for the poor and the developing world. T
by lukifer 13y ago
Even if traffic is drastically slower, on the order of a dialup modem, there is still be massive value in free internet for the poor and the developing world. Text is a powerful medium.
- sliverstorm 13y agoLet's figure we can get 10 WiFi links at half of full speed across the country, 10 x 30Mbps. That's 300Mbps, or roughly 1 bit per second per person. About 10 letters per minute. Good luck. Even the very first modems offered 300 bits per second, so you would need 3,000 simultaneous non-colliding WiFi links across the country to have enough bandwidth for everyone to enjoy the speeds of the very first modems - a cool 40 letters per second.
- userulluipeste 13y ago"About 10 letters per minute." This is a OpenLibreNet telegram. Full stop.
- dllthomas 13y agoAssuming everyone is using it all the time, and there's no meaningful caching that can be done.