50Mb across the country in 6 seconds

Hello Gents. This DBA guy tells me he copied a 50Mb file from his machine
in New Jersey to a server in California in 6 seconds. I told him that's not
possible because the smallest link in the path is 1Gb/sec but MTU is 1500,
so even if you take wire speed, it would be at least 33 seconds before the
file was copied. Am I wrong in saying so?

TIA

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Received on Sat Mar 03 2012 - 14:49:36 ART