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Bandwidth and latency aren't the same thing! High-latency networks sometimes don't ever load some websites, even if there is reasonable bandwidth. I remember one time when I was in Greenland having to VNC to a computer in the US to do something on some internal HR website that just wouldn't load with the satellite latency.


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