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Users sitting on gigabit links close to the server make the tradeoffs, and people on a high latency end of a 3G link, or an airport wifi with a weak signal and
by paulsutter 11y ago
Users sitting on gigabit links close to the server make the tradeoffs, and people on a high latency end of a 3G link, or an airport wifi with a weak signal and 50% packet loss need to live with those tradeoffs.
- edanm 11y agoSometimes, yes, in which case the tradeoff might not make sense. But sometimes it does - e.g. I think in most cases, something existing but being slow is better than something not existing in the first place, which might be the case if the costs of making it go up.