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How much network latency is “typical” for east – west coast USA?

Speed of Light: You are not going beat the speed of light as an interesting academic point. This link works out Stanford to Boston at ~40ms best possible time. When this person did the calculation he decided the internet operates at about “within a factor of two of the speed of light”, so there is … Read more

What are the obstacles to providing reliable Internet access and Wi-Fi at large tech conferences? [closed]

(For those that are interested, I have finally written up my 2009 report on the wireless at PyCon). I have done the wireless for the PyCon conference most of the years since we moved from George Washington University into hotels, so I have some ideas about this, which have been proven in battle — though … Read more