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<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><title>fat pipe</title><link rel="stylesheet" href="../../jargon.css" type="text/css"/><meta name="generator" content="DocBook XSL Stylesheets V1.61.0"/><link rel="home" href="../index.html" title="The Jargon File"/><link rel="up" href="../F.html" title="F"/><link rel="previous" href="fat-electrons.html" title="fat electrons"/><link rel="next" href="fat-finger.html" title="fat-finger"/></head><body><div class="navheader"><table width="100%" summary="Navigation header"><tr><th colspan="3" align="center">fat pipe</th></tr><tr><td width="20%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="fat-electrons.html">Prev</a> </td><th width="60%" align="center">F</th><td width="20%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="fat-finger.html">Next</a></td></tr></table><hr/></div><dt><a id="fat-pipe"/><dt xmlns="" id="fat-pipe"><b>fat pipe</b></dt></dt><dd><p> A high-bandwidth connection to the Internet. When the term gained
currency in the mid-1990s, a T-1 (at 1.5 Mbits/second) was considered a fat
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