For example, have you never wondered why we don’t just connect every device in a network all together like a big daisy chain? Or why we don’t use a mesh network? There is a large number of reasons why we don’t really use those topologies anymore.
Well daisy chaining would be outright insanity … I’m not even sure why you’d jump to something that insane … my internet connection doesn’t need to depend on the guy down the street.
Making an optimally dense mesh network (and to be clear, I mean a partially connected mesh topology with more density than the current situation … which at a high level is already a partially connected mesh topology) would not be optimally cost effective … that’s it.
the more networks a router is connected to, the less efficient it is overall. another hop is absolutely nothing in terms of delay.
Do you not see how these are contradictory statements?
Yeah, you’d need more routers, you have more lines. But you could route more directly between various points. e.g., there could be at least one major transmission line between each state and its adjacent states to minimize the distance a packet has to physically travel and increase redundancy. It’s just more expensive and there’s typically not a need.
This stuff happens in more population dense areas because there’s more data, and more people, direct connections make more sense. It’s just money, it’s not that somehow not having fewer lines through the great plains makes the internet faster… Your argument and your attitude is something else. I suspect we’re just talking past each other, but w/e.