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by disconnected 2551 days ago
To put it into perspective:

https://solarsystem.nasa.gov/moons/saturn-moons/titan/overvi...

According to this (at the time of reading) a one way trip at the speed of light is ~75 minutes, so you will have approximately two and a half hours of ping.

Ouch.

Still, it raises an interesting question: how would a hypothetical Earth-Titan network protocol work?

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That protocol exists, it is called Delay-Tolerant-Networking.

http://ipnsig.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/05/Whats-new-in-IO...

Can't do much about the time it takes light to get here, so I guess the answer is we'd have to learn to love 75 minute ping :)
Alcubierre warp drive powered Sneakernet?
If you can't be with the one you ping, ping the one you're with.
The InterPlanetary File System is a thing, it just isn't interplanetary yet: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/InterPlanetary_File_System
Batch instead of stream I'd reckon.