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

On Thu, 2004-04-01 at 12:21, scotth@scottharney.com wrote:
> "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 :)

What if a cable gets cut? Especially if it's near "the last mile"
and there's no redundancy, bandwidth drops to 0.

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