U.S. appeals court strikes down net neutrality. (Off-Topic)

by Quirel, Wednesday, January 15, 2014, 01:05 (4052 days ago) @ Claude Errera

If he carries a 3 TB HDD and runs at 5m/s, he'd be making about 600 GB per second per meter. If he ran from his kitchen to his room, he'd be making about 10 times the transfer rate he said.

Obviously, he's running across the hall.

The pendantic me reminds you that there are no 'per meter' qualifications on bandwidth.

But he did specify the distance traveled, so the units check out.

3000GB x (5m/s)/(L) = 50Gb/s

where L is the distance between your kitchen and your bedroom, assumed to be twelve meters.

But even though the units check out, the formula above is still theoretical and subject to vary in real life. I, for example, thought to double my transfer rate by moving my couch one meter to the right (And therefore cut the travel distance in half) only to trip over a spherical cow.