Archived Like water, bandwidth is also not an unlimited resource. Do you agree? (technology)
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Archived Like water, bandwidth is also not an unlimited resource. Do you agree? (technology)
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[–] rwbj 1 point 10 points 11 points (+11|-1) ago
No, that's simply not true.
Imagine you and I have a personal network and we're transferring files as fast as we possible can on the medium connecting our machines. Is that the end of it? Resource exhausted? No, we can simply install an additional medium, comparable to the first, and double our transmission rates. There is no end to this.
Bandwidth is more like straws. There may be a theoretical limit to how much stuff you can send through a straw at one time, but there's no limit to the number of straws you can use. And once the infrastructure is setup it's incredibly cheap to maintain which makes the price gouging currently going on the US, after taxpayers heavily subsidized the construction of the infrastructure, completely ridiculous. It's nothing but corruption.