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Yeah and wifi is already pulling out all the tricks like FEC, CSMA and the like just to scale with usage.

At the end of the day the internet is a packet switched and not circuit switched topology despite telecom pushing hard for circuit switched in the early days. Preference is given for throughput and not latency(although network-next is working to address some of that).



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