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		magduf on Oct 1, 2019 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Japanese pagers to issue last beeps on Tuesday, en... You're assuming they all spread out their communications evenly. What if they all want to send out a status update message on the hour?

Retric on Oct 1, 2019 [–]

That one of the reasons for the random delays are for in most network protocols. However, 10,000 devices sending 100 bits over say 10 seconds is still only 100kbps.

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