transcontinental

If I can send packs transcontinental and back in 100ms, then you can get a message out to the people of CA in under 10s. This is not a moon shot project.

Our phone was 8 party non-dial and I think transcontinental phone calls were something like $2 per minute. The first car I drove got 8 miles to the gallon.

It was brutal work, part of the original transcontinental line.

My heartfelt sympathies go out to Cameron--it sounds like riding coach on a transcontinental flight.

The transcontinental railroad wasn't routed through sprawling megalopolises and extant exurbs home to tens of millions of people. Rather, it enabled them.

Already transcontinental and other long-haul links are strained to the limit. This has resulted in a massive degradation of non-local internet traffic, and it's getting worse fast.

Not only the plane/airframe, but the seating configuration chosen by the airline makes a difference in the passenger experience of a transcontinental flight.

Rail traffic dominates in the transcontinental trips, because it's a lot cheaper to ship bulk cargo or shipping containers by rail from LA to Chicago, than by truck. But open-road inter-city trucking from LA to Chicago is relatively safe.

Now it's become apparent from this that the government wants to throw all of that under the bus and is supporting transcontinental IP laws that are almost entirely in US interests and serve to screw over our citizens and go against high court rulings. All to be a lap dog to the US and appease their taskmasters.

If you need response times faster than that, you need a direct network connection between your app server and your memcache server, and you definitely need to avoid transcontinental network hops.

I can't say I've ever used it on a 300 baud modem, but I have used it over a transcontinental SSH session on a crowded wifi connection and I've been thankful for it being designed to operate well under adverse conditions like that.