Invisible escreveu:
> A single-layer DVD apparently holds about 4.7 GB of data. So ten of them 
> would hold about 47 GB.
> 
> That means that if I burn 10 DVDs and mail them to somebody, and it 
> takes 2 days for them to arrive, I have just achieved an average data 
> transfer rate of about 1 GB/hour. (About 0.2 MB/sec.)
> 
> But hey, why burn 10 DVDs when you can just buy a cheap HD and mail 
> that? (I'm guessing at this point the weight starts to become 

> takes 2 days for that to turn up, that's around 23 Mbit/sec - 
> significantly faster than any possible broadband connection.

the problem is that packet loss is not as cheap as with networked data...

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