The bandwidth of a Boeing 747 and its impact on web browsing

This post introduces the concepts of bandwidth and latency as key factors affecting web browsing speed. It explains how TCP's reliability mechanisms, particularly acknowledgements, are limited by latency and the speed of light, impacting download speeds. The post then positions Cloudflare's distributed network of data centers as a solution to this problem by reducing the physical distance between users and their website's content, effectively lowering latency.