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dzonga 33 days ago | parent | context | favorite | on: There's still no point in gigabit broadband

people tend also to confuse latency vs speed.

if u have lower latency <25ms & a 25Mbps .. your connection feels faster than having 100ms latency + whatever speed.

tosh 33 days ago | [–]

latency and bandwidth

ubercow13 33 days ago | [–]

Not really because the latency of, say, clicking a web link and the website showing on screen depends on throughput, not just ping latency.

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