Someone on twitter with a locked account recently posed the question: "What would we be able to do with 100x the bandwidth?" Not sure, but every time it takes more than 100 ms for a website to load I find myself on twitter so maybe productivity would be improved.
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In most cases bandwidth isn't the limiting factor. Even on home connections bandwidth isn't usually a problem.
Thanks very much for the correction! If my house were wired in copper, it would go a little bit slower than fiber optic (but not noticeably so) right? And then there might be copper wire between my house and the fiber main cable. All this stuff would be irrelevant?
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Websites are slow because they make umpteen round-trips between your computer and the data center. DNS resolution. Initial page load. Loading content contingent on other API calls. Even with ping times in the tenths of a second, that adds up to a lot of latency
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Right. And inefficient coding. Most now is round trips to ad networks for videos and other crap bogging down machines.
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Copper can be slightly faster because you don’t need to translate from electric to light. At say 10Gbps or 40Gbps using a copper DAC vs fiber had a slight reduction in latency. This matters for HFT or a HPC cluster. Home use? Doesn’t matter.
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We’re talking microseconds at most.
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