“ A network engineer would say this was a situation of “same bandwidth, lower latency” and then probably launch into a story about how the post office, mailing millions of DVDs (and a few letters) around the world every day, has the highest bandwidth of any network on earth, with far greater capacity than the biggest fiber-optic backbone, but with high latency — so you wouldn’t want to use it for, say, telephony. And this would be extremely hilarious to the network engineer. That’s the kind of joke they tell.
