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>There isn't any deep dark mystery about it. Data does a lot more traveling around on the internet, where a packet can be transferred multiple times on the way to its destination. This is the price we pay for literally global reach and OS independence.
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>In my experience INTRAnet apps perform at least as well as desktop network apps.
You are probably right. I don't have much experience writing web-based (or browser-based) applications.
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