The parent post explicitly took the client bandwidth into account, that's why it was 100 instead of 10.
But your point about 10 vs 9 still stands. Still, 81, and if you bucket into 3 tiers, that's still 27. Which at least scales linearly instead of quadratically.
The parent post explicitly took the client bandwidth into account, that's why it was 100 instead of 10.
But your point about 10 vs 9 still stands. Still, 81, and if you bucket into 3 tiers, that's still 27. Which at least scales linearly instead of quadratically.