Re: [Nolug] Cyberspace not always the fastest way to xfer data

"Petri Laihonen" <pietu@weblizards.net> writes:

>>> Additionally the flash cards I have been using are not that fast to
>>> transfer data. They have been only 256Mb (I have not tested the Gb level
>>> Micro Drives) It could also be due to USB speed limitations.
>>>
>>> Therefore it might actually take several days to put the data into those
>>> flash cards and then read on the other end.
>>
>> Well that's the "latency" or "delay" of the link, not the bandwidth. ;)
>>
> And the original comparison was the *bandwidth* of a minivan. :)
>

There's not much in the way of error correction in the minivan method.
What if the minivan gets in a wreck or drives through a big
de-gausser :)

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