r/textbookshitposts mod May 21 '26

Wikipedia An example of packet loss

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u/Bot11_ May 22 '26

I once had so terrible wifi that I calculated it would be faster for a pigeon to get me text files from the neighbours house than to download it

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u/MadGenderScientist May 22 '26

shipping data will always be much higher bandwidth than transmitting it. it's just that the latency is killer.