Sneakernet

What is Sneakernet?


1.

"sneakernet" - a mechanism for moving files *manually" from one place to another

Floppy Discs, Compact Flash, two computers and a pair of sneakers

2.

The act of carrying data from one computer to another computer via walking and not a p2p file share

Steve: Mike are you still running at 56k?

Mike: Yeah, it is just faster for me to use the Sneakernet to transfer data between my computers rather then over my dial up connection.

See sneakernet, computers, sneaker, network, p2p

3.

A network of computers that consists of a link known as "sneakernet" whereupon a courier sneaks a Floppy disc from one computer to another in order to transfer data.

The files were transferred to the print server via sneakernet, we used 4 whole floppies for it


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