If you have dial up internet you may be lucky and get 56,000 bits per second. If not you may be lucky to get 15,000 bits per second. Of course then if you are near Pluto you get 128 bits per second. That is the data rate that the New Horizons space craft is using to send back huge amounts of data from it Pluto fly by. It will take about 17 months to get all of the data back. Now that is really crummy internet.

So some scientists will have to wait another year and a half just to get all of their data. Of course that data is worth the wait.

Bill Gill

C is not the speed of light in a vacuum.
C is the universal speed limit.