Kai Krakow <hurikha...@gmail.com> writes: > Am Sat, 29 Apr 2017 22:02:51 -0400 > schrieb "Walter Dnes" <waltd...@waltdnes.org>: > >> Then there's always "sneakernet". To quote Andrew Tanenbaum from >> 1981 >> >> > Never underestimate the bandwidth of a station wagon full of tapes >> > hurtling down the highway. > > Hehe, with the improvements in internet connections nowadays, we > almost stopped transferring backups via sneakernet. Calculating the > transfer speed of the internet connection vs. the speed calculating > miles per hour, internet almost always won lately. :-) > > Most internet connections are faster than even USB sticks these days.
Wow, you must be living in some sort of paradise. Here, internet is more like being cut off from the rest of the world. But then, there's a manufacturer that makes incredibly slow USB sticks which I won't buy anymore ... -- "Didn't work" is an error.
