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>> Those old-school tubes get more efficient the more data you have to
>> send. Say
>> you put a harddrive in the tube, the effective bandwidth would be vast
>> compared
>> to even the fastest LAN... ;-D
>
> What about ping time? :-)
Transfer rate /= latency. ;-)
Somebody suggested that by burning data onto a CD-ROM and getting
students to cycle to the other side of Cambridge with the CDs in
backpacks, you could achieve several GB/s mean transfer rate. Of course,
the packet latency would be about 25 minutes each way…
(Of course, use DVD-ROM - or BluRay - and it improves even more!)
I wonder - what happens if you combine RFC 1149 with USB flash drives?
Required XKCD reference:
http://www.xkcd.com/691/
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