Sounds like there are a lot of fancy ways to cram a lot of data more efficiently.
My baseline assumption is that two computers are typing out bytes of data one at a time and sending those individually, and then sending another. I guess i have to accept that computers have better ways of doing that
RickTitus OP t1_jdsidfs wrote
Reply to comment by Ape_Togetha_Strong in ELI5 How do undersea internet cables handle so much traffic? by RickTitus
Ok this helps.
Sounds like there are a lot of fancy ways to cram a lot of data more efficiently.
My baseline assumption is that two computers are typing out bytes of data one at a time and sending those individually, and then sending another. I guess i have to accept that computers have better ways of doing that