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Re:Amazon Used Secret ‘Project Nessie’ Algorithm to Raise Pr... by eropple on Wednesday October 04, 2023 @07:05AM (#37763440)
Latency. Bandwidth. The critical components of a network connection.

You couldn’t get me to put up with 5G latencies because I play multiplayer video games and you couldn’t get me to put up with 5G bandwidth because I need to ship hundreds-of-gigabytes video files around and I’m not putting up with sub-gigabit upload speeds.

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Re:Amazon Used Secret ‘Project Nessie’ Algorithm to Raise Pr... by paulddraper on Wednesday October 04, 2023 @02:07PM (#37769226)
My goodness man :D

Just be glad you weren't around 15 years ago

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Re:Amazon Used Secret ‘Project Nessie’ Algorithm to Raise Pr... by eropple on Wednesday October 04, 2023 @09:21PM (#37773859)
I had symmetrical gigabit FiOS in 2010. (I still have it today.)

Even if I didn't have symmetric gigabit, I also was working with 720p and 1080p video up until about 2013 and not 6K. Requirements shift over time.

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