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>Damn thing has ADSL and gets 2.2mbps down lmao.

Had they considered an infrastructure upgrade to carrier pigeons, cans on a string, or smoke signals?

I started calculating the bandwidth for a continuous stream of carrier pigeons carrying 256GB flash drives, at different frequencies.

But the latency and loss rate would make it all worthless.

Latency definitely, but imagine pigeons carrying 8TB M.2 PCIe Gen-5 sticks strapped to their backs. That's some crazy throughput rivaling most domestic internet connections.

Never underestimate the bandwidth of a station wagon full of tapes hurtling down the highway.

https://www.reddit.com/r/vintagecomputing/comments/9of84w/ne...

Rings true for me. In my younger days I was "privileged" to catch an early morning flight to San Jose with a stack of tapes that I then drove to Palo Alto. All because a RAID array had gone kaput and tapes in a carry-on provided better bandwidth than the upstream from the office where our backups were.

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