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11MBps for 8$ a month... My ISP is ripping me off!

In all seriousness, this is amazing. Once again it proves that nobody should underestimate the bandwidth of a van full of harddrives speeding down the highway... or in this case Cubans exchanging Harddrives.

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Have you seen this?

FedEx Bandwidth: https://what-if.xkcd.com/31/

Along the same thought is RFC 2549 and RFC 1149 for IPv6, IP over Avian Carriers.[1]

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IP_over_Avian_Carriers

Bandwidth is cheap. It's the last mile you are paying for.

If you have access to a datacenter you're basically hooked into the firehose.

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