Comments on: The effective bandwidth of a speeding Toyota Matrix

By: Cervantes

Cervantes — Sun, 22 Jul 2007 05:29:23 +0000

This is all well and good, but I think you’re forgetting about the land mines.

By: Tony

Tony — Tue, 17 Jul 2007 19:50:50 +0000

@Aziz – at 44 mpg (highway mileage), my Matrix would consume 190 L of gas in a round trip. Lets say call this a $200 request. That’s 4 times as expensive as a monthly broadband subscription, but as I’ve concluded above, this particular transfer will still be 8 times as fast if I was to drive. How important is the data?

By: Aziz

Aziz — Tue, 17 Jul 2007 18:23:56 +0000

Yes, but are you counting in the cost of the trip vs the cost of dsl? Gas is much more expensive than an ISP subscription…

By: Konstantin Lopyrev

Konstantin Lopyrev — Tue, 17 Jul 2007 05:54:08 +0000

That is hilarious!

By: Tony

Tony — Thu, 12 Jul 2007 17:05:23 +0000

heh, Paul – the ping will take 32 hours for a round trip, but we only need to make one request

By: Paul Butler

Paul Butler — Thu, 12 Jul 2007 10:39:54 +0000

Yeah, but hows the latency?

Btw, the dedicated server is great news. Dreamhost is great and all but you can only do so much with a shared host.

By: Tony

Tony — Thu, 12 Jul 2007 03:04:00 +0000

Google maps obviously still has room for improvements. It’s a wonderful strategy though, not only for enhancing the bandwidth, but also for avoiding the customs and possibly RIAA. Who knows what arrangement of bits that disk might contain? Thx for the tip!

By: humanalog

humanalog — Thu, 12 Jul 2007 02:58:07 +0000

HAH, Awesome! However, I can’t help but notice that if you took the Chi-Chi-Maun ferry across from Tobermory to Manitoulin and continued on from there, you’d be able to cut your distance down -significantly- (and possibly save a ton of time) while avoiding going through customs as you’d apparently have to according to your map.

Perhaps a way to increase your bandwidth?