>> A 20MB file is 16M bits.  At 1500bits per packet, it means ~ 110,000
>> packets.  If the round trip takes 200-400ms per packet, then it takes
>> 20,000 seconds, or more than 6 hrs, ignoring link congestion and other
>> technicalities, for someone to open the file from India.
>
> That's one sloooooow connection - luckily nowadays "the cloud" is a lot
> faster, IME companies specialising in that type of engineering
> outsourcing work usually have very fast connections (they would have
> received a 20MB file before you could call them and say "hello").

200ms from North America to India is extremely fast.

See for example, tracerouting from my home PC to the Indian govt web site.

C:\Documents and Settings\Francois>tracert india.gov.in

Tracing route to india.gov.in [164.100.129.97]
over a maximum of 30 hops:

   1    <1 ms    <1 ms    <1 ms  192.168.1.1
   2     8 ms    10 ms    17 ms  10.21.136.1
   3    16 ms    12 ms    10 ms  216.113.124.170
   4    22 ms    27 ms    23 ms  216.113.123.249
   5    20 ms    21 ms    32 ms  eqix-ny9.bhartiairtel.com [198.32.118.170]
   6   292 ms   295 ms   295 ms  182.79.255.249
   7   302 ms   295 ms   293 ms 
ABTS-North-Static-218.176.144.59.airtelbroadband
.in [59.144.176.218]
   8     *        *        *     Request timed out.
   9     *        *        *     Request timed out.
  10     *     ^C
C:\Documents and Settings\Francois>

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