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I wonder what the highest bandwidth you could get with smoke signals is. Have 288 fires and a bunch of people opening and closing lids on them in 10-second intervals. Awful latency though

e: actually that's probably around the speed of morse code or human speech

The liner notes for the dvd have a chapter named Risk is Good, if you wanna be salty about more stuff.

yeah, he definitely misread the line and the editor probably didn't catch it. i mean, checking wikipedia, seems like even the very first router/modem had 300 bit/s and that was in the 60s. probably should have been 28KBps

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Modem

I had a 300bps full length ISA modem. It was a beast!

I once built a modem that converted 45.5 baud to 110 baud. Two clock crystals drove the price up.