@waytoomuchstuff ....I've been interconnecting Winboxes to the audiophilia stack before spouse got a gig as the landscape maintenance manager for the complex we got to live in as part of her salary package....
It just 'happened' to be tied into a T3 cable to a local software design/implementation firm a mile away.....full motion videos f/t when the local cables would stststutt er with mpegs.....It was funny when they'd call to hype their service...
"S'cuse, but we're on a T3 link here...." The smart ones would be impressed and wish us a good time...the others?
"Ask your super what a T3 is....and hope they keep you around..." and hang up.
Place was full of geeks, gamers, day-traders looking to trade seconds for dollar$....
Near zero latency....
The server had an music file directory that was Huge.....and got shut down during that whole issue that got some sued by the labels involved.
Those that saw it pending downloaded anything they wanted, but disc drives were still in megabytes and the eq of a t-byte drive would outcost the 'puter you were running....
'Ell, your cell is more capable now....and I'd already been doing 'room eq' for a couple of years prior to that stint....