[Bloat] [EXTERNAL] Re: Terminology for Laypeople

[Bob McMahon]

hmm, it seems kinda like the speed of causality
<https://www.sciencealert.com/watch-why-the-speed-of-light-is-not-about-light#:~:text=As%20Matt%20explains%2C%20the%20speed,the%20Universe%2C%20can%20agree%20on.>
applied to computers that share information in order to proceed

Bob

On Wed, May 12, 2021 at 2:10 PM Michael Richardson <mcr at sandelman.ca> wrote:

>
> Dave Taht <dave.taht at gmail.com> wrote:
>     > On Wed, May 12, 2021 at 9:02 AM Michael Richardson <mcr at sandelman.ca
> >
>     > wrote:
>     >>
>     >> The part I'd like to simplify is "latency"....  Most people can
>     >> understand that the hot water tap doesn't produce hot water
> instantly,
>     >> but I don't know how leverage that experience to networking
> directly.
>     >> Idle and Working are good.
>
>     > The demo I did in my broadcom preso ages back was the simplest I
> could
>     > imagine, but not on the slides. (
>     > http://www.taht.net/~d/broadcom_aug9_2018.pdf )
>
>     > I brought a coffee pot, a large carafe, two differently sized
> funnels,
>     > an eye dropper, (and a towel!)
>
> Yes, that's a good demonstration for technical people.
> I tried to do this at a LUG with audience involved theatre, but then you
> did
> it better at some Australian event.
>
> But, I'm looking for terminology that I can use with my mother-in-law.
> (She's just signed up with a 802.11 based rural provider for her cottage
> for
> the summer.  Made financially feasible only because they'll let her cancel
> for 6 months when it's winter.  I'm providing a modem.  I suspect that the
> bandwidth is not-constant, so I wonder what I'll tell sql scripts...)
>
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