[rescue] Re: redundancy vs. diversity & faster net access...

[joshua d boyd]

On Wed, Aug 22, 2001 at 06:41:07PM -0400, Ken Hansen wrote:
> They are both on the same segment, sharing the same backbone, what is the
> gain? You need diversity, not redundency to see a net gain, IMHO. (unless
> the activity on the backbone is light and the limits on each of their
> connections is absurdly low, I don't see this making a difference)

They could do something with wireless and interhouse routing.  IE, packets
from Mike to Dave wouldn't need to go all the way down the street and
pack.  If they did a lot of interhouse data transfers could be worth it,
but I kinda doubt it.

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Joshua D. Boyd