Humor: Cargo Cult Programming

John Abreau jabr at abreau.net
Thu Nov 14 18:23:18 EST 2002


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Derek Martin <gnhlug at sophic.org> writes:

> The probable cause was not latency, but packet loss.  If your dial-up
> connection doesn't suck, you shouldn't have a problem.

By that metric, I've never experienced a non-local network connection 
that didn't suck. Not just on dialup, but on attbi, on many corporate 
networks at various contract jobs where both offices were on T1 lines
in separate cities.

Granted, I haven't seen this suckage when the two machines were on 
the same LAN; a 100bTX link is sufficiently fast for this.


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