this post was submitted on 09 Dec 2024
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[–] kitnaht@lemmy.world 58 points 2 weeks ago (3 children)

Transfer rate is fucking phenomenal, but the latency is absolute trash.

[–] HoneyMustardGas@lemmy.world 15 points 2 weeks ago

"Hold on, gimme about a day or two; there's some lag on my end of the game."

[–] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 13 points 2 weeks ago

Transfer rate is fucking phenomenal

Barring the occasional data loss error by cat.

[–] curbstickle@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 2 weeks ago

Unfortunately the latency is inherent in the design. The transfer rate has been scaling incredibly though.

[–] givesomefucks@lemmy.world 25 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

The entire point of it to show anything could be...

You could say back in the day when you had to drive to a store to pick up a NES cartridge means your mom's minivan can carry Internet traffic.

It was just a way to move a physical item containing data.

[–] Semi_Hemi_Demigod@lemmy.world 26 points 2 weeks ago (4 children)

Never underestimate the bandwidth of a station wagon full of backup tapes hurtling down the highway.

[–] shalafi@lemmy.world 10 points 2 weeks ago

AWS does exactly this. They will roll up with a semi and move your drives anywhere.

EDIT: Crud. They ended Snowmobile this year.

https://www.datacenterdynamics.com/en/news/aws-retires-snowmobile-truck-based-data-transfer-service/

[–] fubo@lemmy.world 5 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

A hatchback full of SD cards can beat that easily, though.

[–] GoldenDeLorean@lemmy.world 3 points 2 weeks ago

Not in a head on.

[–] mox@lemmy.sdf.org 4 points 2 weeks ago

https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Andrew_S._Tanenbaum

Computer Networks, 3rd ed., p. 83. (paraphrasing Dr. Warren Jackson, Director, University of Toronto Computing Services (UTCS) circa 1985)

[–] shortwavemarsupial@lemmy.world 12 points 2 weeks ago

This is an April Fools Day RFC. The other one that's fairly popular is RFC 3514, which proposes the 'evil bit', which requires malicious actors to flag their own traffic as malicious.

[–] Codilingus@sh.itjust.works 4 points 2 weeks ago

This is fantastic knowledge for future shithead endeavors.