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

Ron Johnson <ron.l.johnson@cox.net> writes:

> 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.

At that point someone is likely getting into a van of some sort.

-- 
Scott Harney<scotth@scottharney.com>
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