Remember when we mocked that guy calling the internet a series of tubes and now we have YouTube, breadtube, vtube,
The idea of water flowing sluggishly through a clogged pipe *is* a pretty good metaphor for how most of us do experience bandwidth problems, slow downloads and streaming videos lagging and whatnot
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Yes, except that pipes don't clog because they have too much stuff passing through them. They clogged because the stuff is stuck, because it's too big or the wrong shape or something.
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Both physical pipes, and bandwidth, are limited. There's a finite amount that can be transmitted per second. But the limitations of physical pipes doesn't _cause delays_, because there never has been a system we've set up like that.
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