Transfer rate is fucking phenomenal, but the latency is absolute trash.
“Hold on, gimme about a day or two; there’s some lag on my end of the game.”
Transfer rate is fucking phenomenal
Barring the occasional data loss error by cat.
Unfortunately the latency is inherent in the design. The transfer rate has been scaling incredibly though.
The entire point of it to show anything could be…
You could say back in the day when you had to drive to a store to pick up a NES cartridge means your mom’s minivan can carry Internet traffic.
It was just a way to move a physical item containing data.
Never underestimate the bandwidth of a station wagon full of backup tapes hurtling down the highway.
AWS does exactly this. They will roll up with a semi and move your drives anywhere.
EDIT: Crud. They ended Snowmobile this year.
https://www.datacenterdynamics.com/en/news/aws-retires-snowmobile-truck-based-data-transfer-service/
A hatchback full of SD cards can beat that easily, though.
Not in a head on.
https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Andrew_S._Tanenbaum
Computer Networks, 3rd ed., p. 83. (paraphrasing Dr. Warren Jackson, Director, University of Toronto Computing Services (UTCS) circa 1985)
This is an April Fools Day RFC. The other one that’s fairly popular is RFC 3514, which proposes the ‘evil bit’, which requires malicious actors to flag their own traffic as malicious.
This is fantastic knowledge for future shithead endeavors.
