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Between cities? In the cars of people who bring their laptop with them home from work.

Across oceans? Never underestimate the speed of a ten foot container filled with 2 terabyte harddrive :)



Never underestimate the speed of a ten foot container filled with 2 terabyte harddrive

No. Never underestimate the bandwidth of a truck filled with harddrives. Always underestimate the speed of said truck.

Networking is easy when latency doesn't matter. Unfortunately, it does.


Latency matters sometimes. I'm an old-fashioned guy who still subscribes to a lot of blogs, and for that, a few days of latency is irrelevant to me.


This darknet wont be supporting IM then? ;)




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