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by 908B64B197 1215 days ago
Only applications where I could see the tradeoffs be worth it is over satellite links.

Either that or game/code assets on large college or corporate campuses.

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There are lots of grade schools with slow internet, and when OS updates come out, all the kids open their school laptops and get prompted to update, which basically ends the class immediately because the slow pipe can't service 25 identical hundred-megabyte downloads quickly.