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Ah, the good ole sneaker net. It seems likely the bandwidth of that network will far outpace that of "real" internet in Cuba for quite some time.
by eric_h 11y ago
Ah, the good ole sneaker net. It seems likely the bandwidth of that network will far outpace that of "real" internet in Cuba for quite some time.
- bayesianhorse 11y agoBandwith, yes. "Latency", not so much. We talk about a latency of milliseconds being important for e-commerce, online trading, API Access, but a sneakernet has a latency of at the very least days for the most "interesting" stuff, and months for other content. So yes, the sneakernet can be used to distribute education materials, movies, texts and the like, but the real benefits of the internet only develop with low latency and multidirectional communication.
- digi_owl 11y agoYep, my first thought went to my Amiga days of passing floppies around. Then later DOS and early Win9x that was first floppies and then CDR based. Then came LAN parties...