[hokus]

The postal service can send a box with say 10 * 6 TB hdd quite fast. Say 2 days for delivery.

480 000 000 000 000 bits / 86400 sec = 5555.56 mbit/s

And you can send as many boxes as you like in parallel.

[kortilla]

High throughput but extremely high latency networks are significantly less useful than current networks.

[lstodd]

Fidonet worked and many an offshoot were spawned.

I fondly remember conversations on AmiNet - an Amiga - dedicated FTN network.

That was all done over PSTN with 9600 - 19200 bps modems. Latency was days. All this didn't preclude massive amounts of collaboration over it.

I'd rather question if lower latency delivers any benefit.

[groestl]

Yet, notably, copyrighted material meant for human consumption is exactly the kind of content that aligns best with high throughput/extreme latency scenarios.

[dTal]

>you can send as many boxes as you like in parallel

I imagine that in practice the postal service may start to decline your custom somewhere around the quintillion-box mark, or perhaps even before...