https://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="🧵" title="Thread" aria-label="Emoji: Thread"> This is amusing, but also: this is still almost faster than my rural internet. Let’s see:

I’m on Netflix’s 2-at-a-time plan; they go up to 3, but let’s start here. I’m on. DVD-only plan, but let’s say I was on a Blu-ray plan. (1/) https://twitter.com/zimmer_donald/status/1310279699873050624">https://twitter.com/zimmer_do...

Commercial movie Blu-ray disks are typically dual-layer. You can do four-layer, but that’s uncommon, so let’s stick with 2. That’s 50GB/disk. I get 2, so 100GB per set. Round-trip for a return is ~4 days for me, but the mail doesn’t come on Sunday, so let’s call it 5. (2/)

100GB is 800Gb (disks are typically in bytes, networking in bits). 800Gb / 5 days = 160Gb/day = ~6667/hour = ~1.85Mb/sec. I pay for an 8Mb/sec line, but *never* get that. I get frequent dropouts and it’s often unusable. My DSL probably still beats the USPS, but not by much. (3/3)