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nl on June 12, 2011 | parent | context | favorite | on: 1Gbps fiber for $70—in America? Yup.

I'm well aware of latency. I chose the example I did specfically because high bandwidth trumps locality when emailing a picture across the room..

orijing on June 12, 2011 [–]

I wasn't saying that high speed internet is not good, just wanted to be careful in declaring that it'll make everything feel as fast as LAN.

Not to mention the fact that the other endpoint needs to be as fast if you want fast communication.

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