On Sat, May 27, 2017 at 05:08:16PM +0000, Curt wrote: > On 2017-05-26, Mark Fletcher <mark2...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> > > It seems like you read my original problem as slowness accessing the > > internet. That isn't the problem, I'm concerned about intra-LAN speeds. > > Haven't even got the length of worrying about internet speeds yet, since > > there are so many variables that can impact that, I have to be sure my > > end is in tip-top shape before I start poking at that. > > Intra-LAN speeds; I thought you were speaking of transferring a movie file(?) > between two computers on your LAN, which couldn't proceed any faster than the > receiving end could write that file to disk? I mean, would that not be a > limiting factor, even with a quantum link? > > Yes. And writing to a disk (a laptop hard disk in this case) is going to be a lot faster than what I can transfer over the LAN, I would have thought. Not sure what your point is here, don't think I've got it.
Mark
