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Originally Posted by pichlo View Post
I don't follow. How did you get from a unit of distance per unit of time to a unit of information per unit of time?
Easily.

Note that I was talking about "the last mile" here, as usually it is what is considered the bottleneck of home internet connectivity.

Now DSL is of course as near instantaneous in this thought experiment, when you shove a byte in the pipeline in the DSLAM end it appears out-of-ethernet-port of your DSL pretty quickly, even allowing that the poor byte spends most of the time huddling in various buffers during the transmission time.

For the donkey&barrow we need to factor in the time it travels over the last mile (roughly 1500 meters) at hefty pace of 10km/h.
Hence we get the units to match; [B/t] = [B]/(l/(l/t))]
6*10⁴TB travelling at 2,8m/s for 1500 meters gives us the bandwidth of 110TB/s
 

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