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this technology suffers from high latency
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When Baldur's Gate 3 came out our group of friends wanted to start a game together. Since one of our friends, living about a kilometer away, has shitty internet it was faster for me to download the game myself, copy it to a USB stick, have it driven over by another friend, copy it onto the friends PC and verify file integrity than downloading it.
German internet in a nutshell.
So yeah, IPoAC would've it's purpose.
You are joking. But https://aws.amazon.com/snowmobile/ is real.
It's a real quote, from the 80s, published in a networking textbook.
It's amusing, but it's always been a serious and occasionally practical observation.
Relevant XKCD.