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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Replying to @Molson_Hart
100x the bandwidth would do nothing for your latency issue. Bandwidth is how much can fit in a truck. Latency is how fast the truck drives. Most internet problems are latency related, latency has a top speed limited by the speed of light.
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Replying to @oddballstocks @Molson_Hart
In most cases bandwidth isn't the limiting factor. Even on home connections bandwidth isn't usually a problem.
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Replying to @oddballstocks
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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Replying to @Molson_Hart @oddballstocks
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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Replying to @EricRichards22 @Molson_Hart
Right. And inefficient coding. Most now is round trips to ad networks for videos and other crap bogging down machines.
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I didn't know that. Very cool.
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